“This vision of historical optimism is not all that common in the Christian world, and so it can get pretty lonely sometimes. But fortunately, once a year the entire nation appears to come around to our way of thinking. You might be shopping in Target for some last minute stocking stuffers and not be at …
Keeping Euclidian Dust Bunnies Out of the Sermon
“Edwards . . . believed in the importance of theory, but he also knew that abstractions kindled few affections, and new affections were the goal of preaching” (Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, p. 88).
5 Thoughts on the South Carolinian Newtslide
1. The voters are apparently in the mood for belligerence toward liberals and the media. This is not the same thing as insisting on belligerence that is coherent and consistent over time (for that would have excluded Newt), but they clearly want a scrap. The other candidates should take note. 2. The South Carolina results …
A Little Caption Contest
Okay, so here’s a caption contest. The winner will be chosen by our incorruptible judge/s, and will receive a poster size version of this graphic, with their winning caption emblazoned on it (where the current caption is). The deadline for entry is the day before the Florida primary (Jan. 30, 2012). So that you can …
A Study in Failure
INTRODUCTION:As 1 Samuel comes to a close, the life of Saul comes to a miserable end. As we will see, the manner of his death was a fitting picture of the way he had lived his life throughout the course of his reign. His reign was a long pattern of self-destruction, and in the end, …
Communion as Comfort Food
Our God is the God of all comfort. His Table is the Table of peace. We know that we are to confess and set aside our sins before we come, but we also need to be reminded that we should confess and set aside our fears. This is a holy Table, and so we know …
Sins of our Fathers
One of the results of our individualism is that we have come to believe that each generation starts from scratch. We believe that no one is in any way accountable for the deeds of their fathers. This neglects, of course, what we know about the entry of sin into the world in the first place. …
Unscrewing the Inscrutable
So then. Let us have a little chat, you and I, about the exuberant Newtlove that is popping up in some quarters. Whence cometh it? I would like to identify the point of origin first, and then give perhaps something of an indication of what I think of it. The meme that is circulating, mostly …
A Week From Sunday
Invitation to Christ Church Twin Cities, January 29th, 2012 from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
A New Order Entirely
“The author of Hebrews is plainly teaching his readers that the shaking of heaven and earth is the removal of the old order of principalities and powers, which includes the old Judaic order, so that the kingdom of God can be firmly established throughout the earth” (Heaven Misplaced, p. 63).