This recent collection of quotes basically present an interesting question to us. What are the implications of Christendom being, as the authors argue, “done”? Well, if you are a Christian, and Christendom really is done, then the obvious answer is to rebuild it. Right? Frost and Hirsch argue that this situation “will require that we …
Just Hum a Few Bars
I wanted to mention the Psalm-Off again, just to get everybody remindered about it. My initial announcements about it are to be found here and here. This afternoon I heard a portion of one of the entries we are expecting, and it got me juiced up. I am really excited about the whole project. So …
The Rock That Accompanied Them
“The realities and saving blessings of the New Covenant pervade all of human history. After they were baptized into Moses, the people drank from Christ” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 31).
Toodle On Over
John Starke over at The Gospel Coalition has posted a few notes about The Rhetoric Companion. Check it out here. And if you want to toodle on over to Canon Press to get your pre-order in, well, nobody’s stopping ya.
Come Up, Come Up
When the Lord Jesus was raised up from the grave, it was not long before He was raised up from world itself. Jesus first came up out of the earth, and He then came away from the earth. That departure from our world was His ascension into Heaven, a glorious transit between the moment of …
New Covenant Curses
“The Levitical administration brought strong curses for disobedience (Heb. 2:2-3); the New Covenant administration brings much greater curses (Heb. 10:29; Heb. 12:25). Christians commonly assume that the really terrifying curses for disobedience were given in the Old Testament, and that under the New Testament all is grace. But this is precisely the opposite of the …
Like Annie Oakley Doing Trick Shots
The Bayly brothers have rendered us yet another service through this analysis of the contemporary politics of the PCA. I wanted to take a moment to register my agreement with the post generally, and to add a few riffs of my own. Here and there I might demur slightly, hopefully without simpering. Out of all …
You Play the Hand You Hold
If you have any opinion at all about the Israeli/Palestinian situation in the Middle East, then your opinion, if implemented, could result in three possible outcomes. It could make things better, it could make things worse, or it could keep things pretty much as they are currently. Given the knife edge that everybody in that …
Seven Thoughts on Time Management
1.The point is fruitfulness, not efficiency. You should want to be fruitful like a tree, not efficient like a machine. But this fruitfulness is a function of God’s blessing, and it is surrendered work that is blessed work. Seek that blessing, and seek it through concrete surrender. Such surrenders are not abstract. Put your Isaacs …
From the Moon and Everything
I like bragging about my kids. God says we are supposed to, but I am grateful my kids make it easy. My daughter Bekah has now released a line of fabric designs, and went to a big convention in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago. Everybody who was anybody was all like, you know, …