If it is possible for a man to put a fruit plate on his head, and it is, and also possible for him to deck his tan little body out in leather and oil, and it is, and possible for him to gyrate that little body on a float cruising down Main Street, USA, and …
Pick-Up Trucks With American Flags on Them
Most people only know half of Stephen Decatur’s famous toast — “my country, right or wrong.” But the whole thing was much more admirable. “My country, may she always be right. But my country, right or wrong.” The abbreviated version makes it sound like national interest is the only standard that a full-tilt patriot would …
Tying On Some Extra Musical Cans
I have three reminders or announcements here, all musically related. First, we continue to be grateful for the blessing that the Benefit Concert was to Logos School, and the opportunity has now come for us to tie another couple of cans onto that bumper. The CDs and DVDs of that event are now available here …
Not Where They Should Have Been
INTRODUCTION:God is sovereign and God is gracious, and this means that God takes you from where you are, and not from where you should have been. If we were standing around where we should have been, we wouldn’t need salvation. If we need salvation, we are not where we should have been. A godly response …
Not Entirely Gone
As you know, tomorrow is the 4th of July. This is the day on which we as Americans commemorate our independence from the tyranny that was being driven by the Parliament of England, but which was allowed by the king—who was constitutionally bound to protect us from all such usurpations. Because he failed in this …
A True Foretaste
When Jesus tells His disciples that many will come from east and west to sit down in the great Messianic banquet (Matt. 8:11-12), we heard echoes of the great promise found in Isaiah 25:6-8. “And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of …
Anchored and Alive
“When once we have grasped the truth that ‘God still speaks through what he has spoken’, we shall be well protected against two opposite errors. The first is the belief that, though it was heard in ancient times, God’s voice is silent today. The second is the claim that God is indeed speaking today, but …
A Circumcised and Baptized Heart Point the Same Direction
“Do circumcision and baptism refer to the same spiritual realities? If they do, and one is required for infants, then the other cannot be excluded because of what it signifies” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 73)
Some Jesus Victim With His Flame On
Sins are like grapes. They come in bunches. Take, fer instance, the Wild Goose Festival, at which a bunch of left-of-center evangelicals have congregated in order to harangue the faithful. Actually, when I use the term “faithful” here, what I actually mean is that they gathered to harangue the faithless. Jim Wallis, Frank Schaeffer, et …
At Least Some . . .
“Under the providence of God and the teaching and leadership of the apostles, circumcision was ‘fading away,’ along with the rest of the cultus of the Old Covenant . . . But while circumcision was fading away, it continued to be practiced by thousands in a way that affected the membership of the visible church …