Not being numbered among those who observe the days, I was somehow under the impression that Lent was going to start any day now. But checking with Google (another thing the apostolic church did not have), I find that we are still a month out. Far from being Fat Tuesday, this might as well be …
Gotta Have Drums
Sorry, everybody. I got a little behind. If you go to the Logos Benefit concert site here, you will met the two latest special guests. Meet Patch Blakey and Alan Burrow.
Under Tribute
“For the gracious heart, the law is no more constraining that wings are to a bird. But for someone who has no experience of grace, these standards bite and pinch, and some accommodation must be made for both morality and sin. Anne [Bradstreet] noted this problem clearly. ‘Some Christians do by their lusts and corruptions …
And It Shouldn’t Be a .22 Plinker Either
“Preaching, in one sense, merely discharges the firearm that God has loaded in the silent place” (Calvin Miller, as quoted in Azurdia, Spirit Empowered Preaching, p. 131).
Anemic Ads for Christian Colleges
The Bible requires Christian leaders to not be bellicose (1 Tim. 3:3). And at the same time we are called to put on the full armor of God, and to contend with principalities and powers (Eph. 6:11-12). What gives? “Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a …
Kings of Schlock
As many of you know, over the years I have made a goodish bit of fun at the expense of evangelical schlock. Some folks might be excused if they had come to the conclusion that perhaps I thought that evangelical schlock was the worst schlock there ever was. This would be a misunderstanding, but given …
The Ananias Syndrome
As I was preparing the sermon I will be preaching tomorrow, I noticed something important in the text (while comparing the “everything in common” of Acts 2 and the death of Ananias in Acts 5). This was something I had never seen before, and the more I think about it, the more important I think …
Parish Life
INTRODUCTION:Over the years, we have seen many believers move here to the Palouse, and we have been greatly blessed by this. The reasons have obviously varied, but in countless conversations I have been a part of, the word that comes up over and over and over again is the word community. There is a reason …
Christ is Your Christ
This is, of course, a covenant meal. This is the cup of the new covenant. Christ is the covenant, and this is His body, and this is His blood. But the word covenant is not just an all-purpose religious word, signifying something vaguely spiritual. A covenant is form by an oath, a bond, between persons. …
Not Wanting to Look Bad
In Psalm 71 (and in various other places), the biblical writer pleads with the Lord that he, the worshipper of God, not be put to shame. One of the faults we have in prayer is that we do not imitate this enough. We have drifted into what we think is a principled complacency—whatever God decrees …