Many things can be said, and have been, about divorce and remarriage. I want to make just a few additional observations, using as a platform the odd legislation found in Deuteronomy 24:1-4. In order to set the context, I hold the common view among evangelicals that divorce and remarriage is not permitted unless the other …
Empire of Bones Release
Today is the official release date for Empire of Bones, which you can get for yourself here. If you are in the Moscow area a couple hours from now, you can come down to the book release party at Bookpeople on Main Street, 5 pm to 7 pm. This is the third book in the …
Extra Portions at the Lord’s Table
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #133 “When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What? have ye …
Playing With the Cool Kids
An optical illusion is created by the pageantry of national political conventions. Because they serve the same organizational function as a junior high pep rally, and because politicians of the same party only occasionally take one another on seriously, the illusion is that the “Republicans” or the “Democrats” are on the same team. And I …
Bultitude Records and Brother Down
A lot of new stuff is barreling toward us. Tell you what. I will do my best to keep up with the announcements, and you do your best to stand clear. Here is a press release announcing the formation of a record label with Canon Press — Bultitude Records. And here is the first album …
A Short Intro to NSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MhmLPYYDye0
Bitterness and the Unsubmissive Wife
Well, I suppose it is time once again to set the cat among the pigeons. This is not done for purposes of entertainment, but rather for edification. We need to let the Scriptures admonish us where we are sinning, and not where we are in no real danger of sinning, or where admonitions are established …
As New as the Everlasting Hills
As we come to this Table this morning, remember—as you should remember always—that this is the Table of the new covenant. We talk a great deal about what is meant by covenant—a glorious word. But we should also reflect on what is meant by the word new. How can a ritual that we perform every …
Understanding Justice
Scripture declares that “evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely” (Prob. 28:5, ESV). But even though they do not understand justice, evil men talk about it incessantly. Even though they do not comprehend what they are talking about, they appeal to it constantly. Because we are lost …
Like a Muddied Spring
Some questions have arisen in the course of my recent posts on the responsibility of Christian leaders to know where the central evil in our day resides. In a recent exchange, I said there are many, many bad Republicans, and no good Democrats. I should have made clear in saying this that I was talking …