“The real origin of nominalism is to be found in all churches that refuse to discipline in terms of their baptism, whatever their practice of baptism may be” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 7).
Grazing in Good Metaphor
“Poetry is also good, for it stimulates the imagination, a faculty sadly neglected by the majority of preachers . . . the preacher ought never to part company with the poets. The objective is not to quote poetry in sermons — there is altogether too much of this — but to find worth-while sermon ideas, …
More on the Psalm-Off
Okay, so here’s some clarification on the rules for the Psalm-Off. What we are looking for is contemporary arrangements and instrumentation that leave the lyrics whole and entire and the melody line basically intact. New arrangements of these melodies could alter rhythms or harmonies, but we would like it to be recognizably the same song …
The Blooming Honeysuckle of Malfeasance
Waylon Jennings had a great line in one of his songs where he said that he “was too dumb for New York City, too ugly for LA.” Speaking from my seat here in fly-over country, I actually think he was probably just fine. When you get caught up in the swirl of the big city …
A Plot Twist Triumph
INTRODUCTION:The triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem is the prelude to His crucifixion, and so it is odd that it has come to be called the triumphal entry. But it actually reveals a good understanding of what was actually happening there. The right hand of the Lord does valiantly (Ps. 118:16), but it turns out …
Metamorphosis
Eating is a great mystery, a mystery of metamorphosis. Whenever we eat, something is turning into something else. Eating is all about transformation. Not only is it true that you become what you eat (in one sense), what you eat becomes you. More peanut butter sandwiches turn into little boys than little boys turn into …
Learn the Passwords Now
In all of our lives, death is an unspoken assumption. Always there, we know that each of us will die, somehow and some way. But we tend to push it out of our minds, knowing that if we are young enough or healthy enough, our odds are good. But this trusting in odds is trusting …
Like a Toddler With Blocks
Father of all nations, we confess that we have found it too easy to trust in our horses and chariots, and not in You, the one who bestows military strength, and the one who takes it away. We confess that we have forgotten that You are the only one who establishes thrones and empires, and …
Give Me That Old Time Goudimel/That Kind of Music Just Soothes my Soul . . .
Canon Press is pleased to announce . . . well, I don’t know what to call it exactly. It is kind of a contest and kind of an opportunity and kind of something else. Let me explain it then, shall I? This is a call to musicians who are up for something a little unusual. …
That Day Approaches
“And because God is good, the day will come when the prayer of the apostle Paul will be answered, and all the saints will come to see the glory in grace — grasping the ungraspable, knowing the unknowable, and marveling at how unworthy wretches can be dressed in a righteousness not their own” (Back to …