It is significant that we come here for bread and wine, and not for the raw products that are used in the production of bread and wine. We eat the bread and drink the wine, and we do not eat a handful of raw grain as the disciples did once, and we do not eat …
Two Kinds of Blamelessness
There are two kinds of blamelessness. One is impossible for us to have, and the other is the full and settled expectation for all Christians. Compared with the holiness of God, not one of us as yet at the place where God could not find fault if He wanted to. In our vertical relationship with …
Going About to Establish Ourselves
Father and God, we confess to You now that we have gone about, as the Jews of old, to establish a righteousness of our own. We confess to You that as a nation, we have not wanted to be clothed in the righteousness of another—we have wanted to stand or fall on our own account, …
Like Taking a Jackhammer to a Souffle
So when I speak of secularism cratering, I am referring to official, state-sponsored agnosticism cratering. I am not referring to any coming obliteration of the necessary distinctions between the church and the world, between the Church of Christ and the Kingdom of God. So let us begin there. The Church should think of the entire …
Lasting Leadership
For those men who live in Moscow, or for any who be in our area in mid-February, we would like to mention a men’s conference on leadership that we are hosting. We are particularly interested in reaching young men in their twenties and thirties, so please consider coming. The conference is free, but you still …
Christ Church Sermon Podcast
So let me explain how you can access the Christ Church sermons online. First, go to our Christ Church web site, which is found here. While there, you can look around at some of the other stuff. I’ll give you a sec. When you are ready to continue, look at the left side bar. The …
Rigorism As Temptation, Not as Goal
“Religion has its own temptations, and these temptations are particularly strong for those who area put in positions of church leadership. Serious theological error is a strong temptation for the devout. The irreligious hardly consider such things. The truly chaste are tempted to condemn marriage. Rigorism is a constant temptation to celibate Christians” (Hughes Oliphant …
Puritan, Not Puritanical
“When it comes to sexual matters, the modern use of the word puritanical to describe prudishness is really a very successful historical slander . . . The Puritans were opposed, of course, to adultery and various other forms of immorality, but not at all to sexual fidelity within the boundaries of a marriage covenant . …
Hunger Games Reviews
Over at Credenda, I have started a series, reviewing my way through The Hunger Games. I am not, I repeat not, promising to do this kind of thing for the rest of my life. I only intend to do it until they stop publishing this kind of thing.
Swinging Thuribles at Each Other
This is near the beginning of a new year, and so why not some predictions? But I am not interested in predicting for the next twelve months — let’s make this interesting and go for a century. After the appropriate time has elapsed, and everybody can see where I was right and where I was …