If you have any opinion at all about the Israeli/Palestinian situation in the Middle East, then your opinion, if implemented, could result in three possible outcomes. It could make things better, it could make things worse, or it could keep things pretty much as they are currently. Given the knife edge that everybody in that …
Seven Thoughts on Time Management
1.The point is fruitfulness, not efficiency. You should want to be fruitful like a tree, not efficient like a machine. But this fruitfulness is a function of God’s blessing, and it is surrendered work that is blessed work. Seek that blessing, and seek it through concrete surrender. Such surrenders are not abstract. Put your Isaacs …
From the Moon and Everything
I like bragging about my kids. God says we are supposed to, but I am grateful my kids make it easy. My daughter Bekah has now released a line of fabric designs, and went to a big convention in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago. Everybody who was anybody was all like, you know, …
Tell Him to Quit It
Jesus is always the one who surprises. We think we know what piety and devotion are . . . until Jesus tells us to do the opposite. “Then said he unto the disciples, ‘It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that …
Samuel and Saul
INTRODUCTION:We are now introduced to the first king over all Israel, a man who began well and ended poorly. There are signs of trouble from the very beginning, but there is also grace from God that is clearly present. The fact that we know there will be a fall does not prevent the goodness bestowed …
What God Does Every Time
When we come to this Table, we do so as forgiven sinners. Grace has dealt with the past, and has done so in such a way as that the past no longer matters. Under the blood of Christ, God doesn’t care what you have done. As grace has washed away every stain, it follows that …
Contrasts
We gather as one body, but we all different troubles. We gather as one body, but we all rejoice in different bits of news. Some of you suffer strained family relations. Some of you have financial pressures. Some of you have to deal with the grinding ingratitude of others, who should know better. Some of …
Natural Law and the Brownies
Let me see if I can do something to simplify the idea of natural law or, as I would prefer to state it, natural revelation. A couple of boys go home after school, accompanied by a couple of their unbelieving friends. When they get to the house, they find it clean and in good order. …
Sam and Miranda
This is a Christian wedding, a doorway into a Christian marriage. What is it that makes it a Christian wedding? It is not the fact that it is occurring inside a Christian church—because it isn’t. A Christian wedding can occur in a church, of course, but that is not what makes it Christian. Sam and …
An Inept Farmer With a Dull Knife
One of the more striking arguments that David Bahnsen made about Ron Paul was this one. Why is Paul considered a champion of the Constitution when Lew Rockwell, his ideological twin, thinks the Constitution was a statist scam from the beginning? The chances are good that Paul believes the same thing about the origins of …