“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #38 “For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me” (1 Cor. 4:15-16). …
Of Course Not
“It is important for biblical paedobaptists to attack publicly the various errors that have grown up around the practice of infant baptism . . . we need to get to the point where no one would dream of accusing an evangelical paedobaptist of holding to the false and destructive doctrine of baptismal regeneration” (To a …
Because We Are Becoming Someone, Not Cramming for a Test
“So one can get spiritual, mental, and moral help from a good book, although he may not remember anything in the book a short time after he has read it” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 85).
Seven Memes for Keeping Christians in their Place
Among other things, a meme is a little bit of a verbal virus that gets passed around in a culture, like the common cold. After it gets passed around enough, people start to think it is the received wisdom. That said, here are seven memes that are common in our culture, and which have been …
Guys On Little Motorcycles
The clownish foray of Donald Trump into presidential politics reveals some things to us. First, as with so many other things, giraffes, for example, it teaches us that God has a sense of humor. Second, it illustrates the dearth of real leadership available to the Republican party. Third, it shows us how respectability squelches don’t …
Where Nominal Christians Come From
“The real origin of nominalism is to be found in all churches that refuse to discipline in terms of their baptism, whatever their practice of baptism may be” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 7).
Grazing in Good Metaphor
“Poetry is also good, for it stimulates the imagination, a faculty sadly neglected by the majority of preachers . . . the preacher ought never to part company with the poets. The objective is not to quote poetry in sermons — there is altogether too much of this — but to find worth-while sermon ideas, …
More on the Psalm-Off
Okay, so here’s some clarification on the rules for the Psalm-Off. What we are looking for is contemporary arrangements and instrumentation that leave the lyrics whole and entire and the melody line basically intact. New arrangements of these melodies could alter rhythms or harmonies, but we would like it to be recognizably the same song …
The Blooming Honeysuckle of Malfeasance
Waylon Jennings had a great line in one of his songs where he said that he “was too dumb for New York City, too ugly for LA.” Speaking from my seat here in fly-over country, I actually think he was probably just fine. When you get caught up in the swirl of the big city …
A Plot Twist Triumph
INTRODUCTION:The triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem is the prelude to His crucifixion, and so it is odd that it has come to be called the triumphal entry. But it actually reveals a good understanding of what was actually happening there. The right hand of the Lord does valiantly (Ps. 118:16), but it turns out …