As we gear up for our upcoming campaign centered on the theme of Gospel Presence, we want to urge you to do just a few things to prepare yourselves for what we want to do. One of the things we don’t want to do is think of these campaigns as events where we do something, …
Ubiquitous Goo-Rot
It has now started. The ubiquitous goo-rot of modern thought has advanced far enough that folks are now openly calling for a new sexual ethic among evangelicals. These new advances promise to be entirely exegesis-free, which in some quarters is quite a plus. For example, see Tony Jones here. And Rachel Held Evans sobs out …
The Conscription Question
A few weeks ago there was a flurry of concern over the possibility of daughters being drafted for combat roles. Now that women have been cleared for combat duty by the Pentagon, all that is now necessary for that monstrosity to happen is for us to abandon our commitment to an all-volunteer military. But this …
High Standards on a Low Setting
“He was a classic paper-clip counter, correct-department-code-numbers-for-the-copying-machine maintainer, and one who generally focused on pennies, policies, and those blank ‘spirit of the law’ spaces in between the lines of all written procedures — but only so long as ‘spirit of the law’ was interpreted and applies by a committee of first-century Talmudic scholars, all of …
Salt and Sugar
“Talking about how men and women differ from one another ought to be commonplace, but in our egalitarian age, to point out differences that use to be as obvious as the differences between salt and sugar is to be guilty (in some quarters) of a thought crime” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 39).
New From Old
“Do not avoid a text because it is familiar . . . He who will turn away from the tradition of the pulpit as to the meaning and application of such passages, and make personal and earnest study of them, will often find much that is new to him and his hearers” (Broadus, Preparation and …
Accusational Dodge Ball
A few days past, I wrote about some cautions when it came to confession of sin. If you missed it, you can read that here. I wanted to follow that general set of cautions up with a handful of “fer-instance” situations. These might illustrate better how we must remember at all times that we are …
Where the Answers Hide
“John Mitchell began to feel like something hot and wet was crawling up his spine . . . John had learned years before that there are no coincidences in pastoral ministry . . . ‘What do you want?’ Cindi asked him, ‘I’ll get it for you.’ ‘I want,’ John said darkly, ‘answers.’ ‘You’re the pastor,’ …
The Glory of the Feminine
[Concerning 1 Cor. 11:1-16 and Is. 4:5] “The NKJV translates it this way: ‘For over all the glory there will be a covering.’ This is what Paul is referring to — a godly wife is to her husband what the Shekinah glory was to the tabernacle. Now this is how it all ties in with …
Especially Verse 15
“Pastor Winmore had been the pastor of Grace Reformed prior to John, the one who blew up one day in the middle of Romans 9 — an easy thing to do, admittedly” (Evangellyfish, p. 73).