“It is indeed unfortunate that we by our sloth have made a revelation into one of the most obscure books of the Bible” (Heaven Misplaced, p. 107).
Which Would Mean the NT Is About Guilt
Our fascination with guilt is a blind alley (especially for preachers) because the New Testament isn’t about guilt at all; its about forgiveness. The Lamb of God has taken away the sins of the world, not laid them on us like a coat of tar” (Capon, The Foolishness of Preaching, p. 22).
Sam Harris, Moist Robot
So then, Sam Harris has a new little book out, and for such a small book (66 pages), it promises to be a lot of fun. I say this because the book appears to be filled with epistemological obliviousness, cover to cover. The name of the book is Free Will, released by Free Press (heh) …
Fatherhood and Pleasure
INTRODUCTION:Our world is filled with fathers because it is a world created by God the Father. Fatherhood lies at the center of all things, and because the Father created the world, the world has to reflect that reality. But because it is a world that has—because of the disobedience of our first father—fallen into sin …
The Promise Comes First
One of the things we should gather from this Table is a right grasp of the relationship between promise and trouble. God’s saints do go through troubles, but they are like a cloud that passes over the sun. Nonbelievers have their troubles as well, but theirs are like the pitch of night that is a …
Glory is Not Wispy
Music is a form of glory. There are many forms of glory, but all of them have this in common — they are weighty. Glory is not wispy. We know that fighting the acoustics in this space is difficult, and we want figure out whatever means of dealing with that as we can — that’s …
Deacons, Defaults, and Daughters
Allow me to place two apparently unrelated points side by side, and then make a third point with the two of them together. Let me start by pointing to a particular feature of the European debt crisis, and then move on to the stealth campaign for women deacons in the PCA via Manhattan’s Redeemer. Then …
And Your Sun Will Go Down
[Discussing Matt. 24:29-31] “Everywhere there is similar ‘collapsing solar system’ imagery in the Old Testament (see Ezek. 32:7; Amos 8:9; and Joel 2:28-32), the reference is always to the same thing — the destruction of nations and cities. There is no scriptural reason to handle such passages differently when they are quoted in the New …
Actually, the Crack Cocaine of Acceptance
“I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills, spirituality pills, and morality pills, and flush them down the drain . . . But preachers can’t be that naughty or brave unless they’re free of their own …
Build Gradually
“It is usually necessary then to introduce the subject of the sermon like a slowly rising sun rather than as a sudden searchlight” (Murray, How Sermons Work, p. 72)