If the driving and fundamental motive for missions is to be joy over the resurrection of Jesus, resulting in the consequent message that He is indeed Lord over all, does this that we may have no other motives whatever? Well, we may have other motives, but there is a strict condition placed on it. If …
The Right Kind of Bright in Your Eyes
Here are the remarks, in substance anyway, I gave at the commencement ceremony for the graduating class of New Covenant Schools for 2011. They have just finished their 20th year under God’s blessing, and many congratulations. I begin, of course, with the salutations. I want to thank the members of the board, your headmaster John Heaton, …
Driving Joy
The biblical motive for mission is to be joy, gratitude and excitement. Christ is risen. The first missionary movement was born out of persecution (Acts 8:1), but the disciples involved in it scattered in all directions, telling people the good news about Jesus (Acts 8:4). Declaring the good news about Jesus is the only point …
Maybe We Could Quit in the Third Quarter
This recent collection of quotes basically present an interesting question to us. What are the implications of Christendom being, as the authors argue, “done”? Well, if you are a Christian, and Christendom really is done, then the obvious answer is to rebuild it. Right? Frost and Hirsch argue that this situation “will require that we …
Just Hum a Few Bars
I wanted to mention the Psalm-Off again, just to get everybody remindered about it. My initial announcements about it are to be found here and here. This afternoon I heard a portion of one of the entries we are expecting, and it got me juiced up. I am really excited about the whole project. So …
The Rock That Accompanied Them
“The realities and saving blessings of the New Covenant pervade all of human history. After they were baptized into Moses, the people drank from Christ” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 31).
Toodle On Over
John Starke over at The Gospel Coalition has posted a few notes about The Rhetoric Companion. Check it out here. And if you want to toodle on over to Canon Press to get your pre-order in, well, nobody’s stopping ya.
Come Up, Come Up
When the Lord Jesus was raised up from the grave, it was not long before He was raised up from world itself. Jesus first came up out of the earth, and He then came away from the earth. That departure from our world was His ascension into Heaven, a glorious transit between the moment of …
New Covenant Curses
“The Levitical administration brought strong curses for disobedience (Heb. 2:2-3); the New Covenant administration brings much greater curses (Heb. 10:29; Heb. 12:25). Christians commonly assume that the really terrifying curses for disobedience were given in the Old Testament, and that under the New Testament all is grace. But this is precisely the opposite of the …
Like Annie Oakley Doing Trick Shots
The Bayly brothers have rendered us yet another service through this analysis of the contemporary politics of the PCA. I wanted to take a moment to register my agreement with the post generally, and to add a few riffs of my own. Here and there I might demur slightly, hopefully without simpering. Out of all …