So let me explain how you can access the Christ Church sermons online. First, go to our Christ Church web site, which is found here. While there, you can look around at some of the other stuff. I’ll give you a sec. When you are ready to continue, look at the left side bar. The …
Rigorism As Temptation, Not as Goal
“Religion has its own temptations, and these temptations are particularly strong for those who area put in positions of church leadership. Serious theological error is a strong temptation for the devout. The irreligious hardly consider such things. The truly chaste are tempted to condemn marriage. Rigorism is a constant temptation to celibate Christians” (Hughes Oliphant …
Puritan, Not Puritanical
“When it comes to sexual matters, the modern use of the word puritanical to describe prudishness is really a very successful historical slander . . . The Puritans were opposed, of course, to adultery and various other forms of immorality, but not at all to sexual fidelity within the boundaries of a marriage covenant . …
Hunger Games Reviews
Over at Credenda, I have started a series, reviewing my way through The Hunger Games. I am not, I repeat not, promising to do this kind of thing for the rest of my life. I only intend to do it until they stop publishing this kind of thing.
Swinging Thuribles at Each Other
This is near the beginning of a new year, and so why not some predictions? But I am not interested in predicting for the next twelve months — let’s make this interesting and go for a century. After the appropriate time has elapsed, and everybody can see where I was right and where I was …
High Dogma
“All the art of the poet is used to make the cadences of the language appropriate to the high seriousness of the thoughts expressed. That high dogma can be poetry is inconceivable to some, but there are plenty of examples–T.S. Eliot’s introduction to The Wasteland, for one” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of …
Women and the Destiny of Nations
“A woman who was related to the leaders in that society necessarily had far more influence than a man who occupied a more lowly station. When Bathsheba made a petition to David concerning her son Solomon, she was exercising far more influence than the average stablehand in the royal stables. When Esther interceded on behalf …
Solemn Remembrance
“Worship is a memorial or remembrace of the saving acts of God on which the covenant relationship is based” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, Vol. II, p. 232).
Pumping Their Own Gas and Stuff
There are two kinds of secularism. Well, at least two — or at least two that I am willing to talk about this morning. We are more accustomed to one of these, the one that refers to the functional godlessness of our public affairs. The secular state for us is that which has enshrined agnosticism …
An Arched Eyebrow Problem
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #24 “For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to …