Life together in Christ is quite an adventure, and this sometimes comes as a shock and surprise. It is easy for us to think that if we love Jesus, then loving our neighbor should be easy. And if we think that, how much easier will it be for us to love our brothers and sisters? …
Locusts From the Treasury
As we observe the Lord’s Supper every week, you will have noticed that we begin with the presentation of our tithes and offerings. This Table is a table of thanksgiving, and we know of no better way to tangibly express our gratitude to God than by means of our tithes, our offerings, and our gifts. …
Even Postmillennialists Get the Blues
Before I became postmillennial, I noticed something odd, and since then, some of the oddities seem even more so. Some of the most cogent cultural criticism I have ever read has come from postmillennialists, who described in excruciating and exact detail how and why our culture is falling apart. And yet, back in the day, …
Sacramental Living
“Though there are only two sacraments, they give sacramental significance to our entire lives” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 146).
Sermonic Sloth
“Sloth is as inexcusable in a minister as sleeping in a sentry” (Watson, as quoted in Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 252).
He At Least Knew
“Jesus professed to work miracles; he cannot by possibility have been deceived on the subject; and so, either he did work miracles, or he was a bad man. Against his character all the objections to miracles must shatter, like surf against the rock. And this is not arguing in a circle; not proving the miracles …
School Rules Are Not the Answer
One of the great challenges faced by classical and Christian schools is the challenge of growth swamping that which is the cause of the growth. If there is one three-man lifeboat in the water, and a hundred people also in the water, the thing that makes the lifeboat an object of desire is the same …
Down the Trunk of the Jub Jub Tree
This morning, I read this little snippet at the Bayly Blog, and thought I needed to add my two cents. Here is my first penny. Note that a “first couple” is not required by the text of Scripture, but that it is required by the theologians. Well, then . . . all rise! If the …
Father Hunger Audio
For those of you with a commute, there is an audio version of Father Hunger out.
Double Categorization
Nancy and I are reading through Richmond Lattimore’s translation of the New Testament, and yesterday we came to Luke 21. This is the place where the disciples were gawking at the Temple, and Lattimore says that the Temple was done up with “fine stones and dedications.” That made me wonder what the word underneath “dedications” …