“Under the Old Covenant, the children regularly fell into apostasy. But God promises that under the New Covenant, this pattern will change. If we forsake our covenant children, we are returning to the lifestyle seen under the powerless shadows, we could not maintain faithfulness over generations. The Old Covenant had its problems, not because it …
Learn from Them, Don’t Lean on Them
“Too much consultation of commentaries is apt to have a serious effect on the preacher’s resourcefulness, initiative, and originality” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 112).
Fill In Details Later
The other day Nancy and I spent a lot of time at Logos for grandparents day. The kids had their projects out, we saw some impressive class exercises, and so on. My grandson Knox had an impressive statement about the Reformation, at a sixth grade level, along with a poem he had written about Luther. …
For Homeschoolers Thinking of College
For those of you who are homeschoolers looking for a place for your graduate to attend college, here is a list of colleges that homeschoolers should be aware of. I mention this, ahem, because of what you might find if your scroll down.
No Abrogation At All
“The Bible teaches that one of the features of the New Covenant was to be the restoration of the covenantal parent/child relationship, not the dissolution of the covenantal parent/child relationship” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 15).
Spadework
“There is no worth-while subject to which the preacher’s mind will not kindle if he thinks enough upon it and about it” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 110).
And No Potato
In these days of rising pomosexuality, the latest move is to challenge the very idea of a sexual identity in the first place. But this notion does not get laughed to scorn (in the way, say, that a fundamentalist would if he told a homosexual activist that all he needed to do was “find a …
The Puritan Five
The day before our fall conference, we have ourselves a little prefunk going. (I really need an editor to tell me how to spell things like prefunk. The way it is there seems a tad misleading.) Anyhow, this pre-conference is for ministers, and here is our description of it. In order for ministry to engage …
Which Way the Application Goes
“We must not come to the text of Scripture with our modern debates in the forefront of our mind. Our modern debates should be settled by Scripture, but this does not mean they are found in Scripture. The issue for us should be to learn what their debates were. And as the history of the …
Which Can Explain Quite a Bit
“The preacher’s whole life, his whole experience is, in a way, a preparation for the sermon, even though it may be an unconscious one” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 108).