“Correspondingly, the preacher is the servant of that message. As preacher he is committed completely to the Bible.”
Parker, Calvin’s Preaching, p. 35
Unctuosity
“There had apparently been plenty of oil left over after he had fixed his hair, and so he had figured out a way to work it into his smile.”
This Shambling and Shameful and Shambolic Shamdemic
Introduction: And so let me begin by explaining my use of that term shamdemic, in case that got your attention, and lest my views here be misrepresented. I do not mean that the virus is somehow fake, or that there are not places that are severely affected. I do not mean to belittle the suffering …
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Sin and Dust/Easter 2020
Sermon Video Introduction: In the Garden of Eden, when God shaped the first man from the dust of the ground (Gen. 2:7), the Almighty was simply playing the part of a sculptor. He shaped Adam from ...
Good Friday Meditation/April 2020
https://www.facebook.com/193451174031504/videos/228349228516622/ According to Scripture, the reason we die is because of our sin. God told our first father Adam that the day he ate from the tree ...
Salvation Lives in the Word
“Calvin is saying . . . that God is gracious, that Jesus Christ has made the satisfaction for our sin. But when this message is preached, its reality is present and (how could it therefore be otherwise?) effective . . . The reality was present, however, not through vivid imagination or power of language, but by the working of the Holy Spirit.”
Parker, Calvin’s Preaching, p. 29
A Lot of Trail Mix
“And in every last one of those buildings, there were women in striking outfits walking through those offices and hallways like so many tasty treats—red M&Ms in a skyscraper full of trail mix. So to speak.”
That’s How They Are Designed
The Throne of God
“The pulpit is ‘the throne of God, from where he wills to govern our souls.’”
Parker, Calvin’s Preaching, p. 26
Pretty Black
“Tom swallowed, saying nothing. He thought, involuntarily and somewhat guiltily, about one of them, whose heart he personally believed to be about as black as his grandfather’s leather Bible, which was pretty black.”