“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #132 “For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may …
Morality and Moralism
“There is a stark difference between morality and moralism. The problem we face in the conservative church can be seen in treatments of subjects like this one . . . “What about the children?” Let us consider the question this way: Is the book of Leviticus PG-13? Is the Song of Solomon an R? What …
Hammer and Fire
“The Word preached is the engine God uses to effect repentance. It is compared to a hammer and to a fire (Jer. 23:29), the one to break, the other to melt the heart” (Watson, in Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 252).
Application, Not Evasion
My mother was a Canadian, of Scots Irish descent, with the maiden name of Dodds. My father grew up in Nebraska, the second of six sons. All six joined the Navy, having heard wild tales in their youth about something called “the ocean.” My father was of Scottish descent, meaning, I suppose, that I am …
Skinism
This post was originally published September 10, 2005. With republished posts, you shouldn’t expect the links to still work. My friend Phillip Johnson has a category of links on his blog that he appropriately entitled appalling. One of them is a site that is called Little Geneva. There are some related sites which can be …
Used or Useful?
“When we use one another in a way contrary to God’s law, the end result is that we use one another up. But when we remember the natural use of the woman, and the natural use of the man, the results are usually very pleasant. All of this is in the context of love, which …
Sincere Public Apologies
This is the fourth post in a series of four posts on race and reconciliation. Sincere public apologies in matters like this are difficult for many reasons, some of which I discussed in my exchanges with Thabiti. We live in a time where many are hyper about race, and so whenever you address the topic …
For Is That Not My Brand?
My new goal is to think inside the box, which is increasingly hard these days. At the same time,because so many people are trying to think outside the box, I get a lot of time to myself. On top of that, I begin to suspect that those who have decided to think outside the box …
A Glimpse of the Old David
Introduction As we begin to work through this passage, we see that David is still far too passive, far too trusting. Even though he is forgiven for his sin, he is forgiven in a palace. It is not until he is walking toward the wilderness, barefoot, as a seventy-year-old man, that we see the stirrings …
The Face of Jesus Christ
You may have been asked, from time to time, why we don’t use images in our public worship of God. This is a subject on which many books could be written—and have been, actually—but it is an important point for us to recall from time to time. There are three basic reasons. The first is …