“What are we to make of the phrase ‘sons of Belial’? In every instance of the phrase in the Old Testament, it always refers to members of the covenant whose lives were completely at odds with the terms of it, and whose hollowness was exhibited in their behavior.”
A Stretch of White Water Ahead
So election day is less than a week away. I have already written about our need to put and keep our trust in God, and that this spiritual calibration needs to be maintained throughout the whole ordeal. Put not your trust in princes already (Ps. 146:3). But with that said, and your spirit being all …
Infidelity Within the Covenant
“Mark this well: adultery is not the same thing as divorce. It is certainly covenantal unfaithfulness and is grounds for divorce, but if there is no divorce, then the marriage remains binding on both parties. An adulterous husband is a covenant-breaking husband, not an ex-husband. In short, we must distinguish covenant-breaking from covenant-separation.”
Letters Do Help to Pass the Time
Letter to the Editor: I have to think the threat of Trump, who could not be bought off, exposing Epstein's and Sean "Diddy" Combs' "clients" might be driving threats on his life. There ...
My, What Big Ears You Have
“We should note that the sheep don’t have to go to graduate school to find out the difference between a shepherd and a wolf.”
A Sexual Marketplace
So the reasons for a young man marrying young, as outlined elsewhere, seem fairly compelling. So why are so few young men doing this? What is the hold up? Why can’t they get with the program? The short answer is that people respond to incentives and they respond to disincentives also. These incentives and disincentives …
Pointing Away
Both sacraments that God gave us were given to point us to Christ. They are not intended to make a statement about the condition of the person receiving the sacrament. Rather, they create a covenantal obligation for the recipient of the sacrament to live a life that points—by faith—to the same thing that the sacrament …
Great Grace, Great Fear
Acts of the Apostles (11): Sermon Video Introduction: We come now to the famous story of Ananias and Sapphira, the moral of which is sometimes thought to be “look what happens to chintzy ...
All the Way Down Aaron’s Beard
“So what problem is created by the heretic? For instance, we have some who reason that since these other fellows (liberals, etc.) are certainly part of the visible Church, then our relationship with them should be collegial. In other words, we should schmooze with one another all the way down Aaron’s beard. Others reason that ‘if that lesbian bishop is a Christian, then I’m a Hottentot.’”
