“Husbands are prohibited from bluster, bossing about, selfish grasping, and all the rest of it, but the Bible nevertheless requires wives to obey their husbands. This obedience is to be cheerful, complete, reverent, all the way down, and across the board. Remember that in our passage St. Paul tells wives to be subject to their …
Abiding the Results
Being clever, or smart, or sophisticated, or educated, is not the same thing as being wise. Being wise includes, fundamentally, submission to a standard outside your own opinions. It means a willingness to take the test, and to abide the results. “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is …
Hidden Likenesses
“The first thing she did was hand him the check, like Jacob driving his flocks toward Esau, not that either of them was thinking about this exactly” (Evangellyfish, p. 221).
Which Is Not a Technique
“The Christian pattern of self-improvement is to die and rise” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 117).
With Word Pictures As Bullets
“We want the people in the pews to understand and remember as much of our sermons as possible. We should not be content with firing over people’s heads, but with aiming at their hearts” (Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 44).
No Showboating With the Subjunctive
“There must of course be no parade of acquaintance with the original languages, and there should be no morbid fear of being charged with such parade” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, pp. 146-147).
Excuses and Evasions
Up to this point someone might be excused for thinking my purpose in tackling this issue of elder qualifications in a man’s family has been to explain to us all what the standards do not mean, and all the circumstances where they don’t apply. This has been a regrettable necessity because our modern approach to …
Grinding My Postmill Coffee Beans
I promised Frank Turk an additional response to Carl Trueman’s jab at King’s College, and so here goes. There were two basic points that Trueman made that I didn’t get to. The first has to do with Trueman’s middle class “chatterati” and their bland biblically-tinged bromides, and the second has to do with how many …
Covenant Kindness
Introduction In the previous chapter, there was no dialogue. We had a summary of David’s exploits, and a testimony to how wonderfully God had established him on his throne. In this chapter, we return to ground level, beginning with “And David said . . .” The Text: “And David said, Is there yet any that …
The Fountain of Wars
The fact that our hymns and songs are filled with references to the blood of Jesus Christ is far more than simply a poetic exercise. The fact that Scripture constantly refers to the blood of Christ as the foundation of our forgiveness is not just nebulous metaphor. Scripture plainly teaches that without the shedding of …