Whenever God’s people take up the adventure that He sends them, there are always troubles that arise in the midst of the adventure that make you want to second guess your initial decision. In the midst of the turmoil that you have gotten yourself into, it is easy to wonder if you read the fine …
The Table of No Comparisons
This is a gospel Table, a good news Table. This is a Table that presents the broken body and shed blood. This means it cannot contain a hard message for anyone who partakes of it in living evangelical faith. This makes it the Table of no condemnation. Because God is here, with no condemnation, this …
Cousins
These are my remarks for the NSA Convocation 2013 Just over a decade ago, I spoke at convocation, much as I am doing now, and gave a mock convocation address for the year 2022, now just nine years away from us. In that address, among many other cogent observations, I said this: “We continue to …
Pursuing the One
The calling of a pastor can be a demanding, rigorous, and often thankless calling. For every televangelist with white shoes raking it in, there are a hundred men laboring in obscure corners of the Lord’s vineyard. For those who are aware of this reality — the fact that congregations are sometimes critical, fussy, envious, and …
The Sailboat and the Lighthouse
“Brian had always been thoughtful and deliberate about spiritual things, and he had been assembling the pieces for a number of years. He had been very diligent in his own way, but he was like a guy putting together a jigsaw puzzle of a lighthouse, but one where things got mixed up in the closet, …
But a Lot More Rewarding
“Why is it that learning to live with your spouse can be awkward? . . . making a bottle of fine wine is a very different thing that mixing up a jug of fruit juice” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 110).
Sermonic Crib Notes
“The books of ‘Sketches and Skeletons’ which are so often published and so widely bought, are an unmitigated evil, and a disgrace to the ministry of the gospel . . . There is no excuse for such books, and no minister should suffer one of them to remain in his library” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, …
Kicking Evolutionary Euro-Butt
Coyne’s last two chapters might best be treated together. This is because the closer we get to the end, the faster the evolution of this review wants to accelerate. In these chapters, Coyne addresses the evolution of man. Chapter 8, “What About Us?” tackles the evolution of man, and his last chapter, “Evolution Redux,” also …
The Head of Every Man
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #123 “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God” (1 Cor. 11:3). However devoutly some people might …
Not the Same Door
As we continue to consider the implications of Paul’s requirements for the minister’s family, a few other considerations need to be introduced at the front end. These considerations are not in the interest of governing through exceptions — just the reverse, actually. We are coming (soon enough) to a statement of what this high standard …