Father we confess to you that our grudges and resentments are ample proof that we have not loved our enemies as we ought to have done. We have dealt with our enemies in a fleshly and carnal way, and have not sought to deal with them in the way that Your Word requires. We assume …
A Christmas Eve Invitation
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit . . . merry Christmas. Welcome, and thank you for coming this evening. We are grateful to have the opportunity to share our Christmas celebrations with you. What is Christmas about? What is the point of the whole thing? We don’t want to make the …
In Praise of Christmas Cash Registers
Or, another title could be, “The Death Knell of Gnosticism.” Scriptures commend those who have the eyes to see that which is unseen. But there is more than one kind of “unseen,” and we have to make sure we are not limiting the eye of faith to just the heavenly realities. It is good for …
The Goodness of Stuff Means Merry Christmas
Christmas and falling into sin from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
The Reformed Card and Gift Shop
So the sexual socialists found a few craven Republicans and jammed a sea change bit of legislation, the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” through a lame duck Congress. Instead of the president having to leave town in humiliation over the high-handed antics of a discredited Congress, this, and a few other passed and signed …
Before the Crystal Sea
There is a little something that I have assumed for years, but never bothered to check. This morning I was reading in Revelation, the thought popped up again, and so I thought I would check on it. And, sure enough, there it was, right in the Bible. “And before the throne there was a sea …
Grad Study in the Wordsmithy
I alluded to further developments in my previous post. Just to help you keep track, there’s three days in the wordsmithy, and then there are more than three days in the wordsmithy. And here is a description, as captured by a statement from NSA: Merry Christmas to you from New Saint Andrews College. Here’s What’s …
Three Days in the Wordsmithy
We are really excited about some writing developments at NSA. And here is the first installment . . . three days in the wordsmithy.
Treasury of Tropes
“Far from being mere word tricks, the tropes of classical rhetoric are the inevitable consequence of a creation endowed by its creator with meaning . . . Creation itself is metaphoric and parabolic. Things seen speak of things unseen” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, Vol. II, p. 59).
It Works the Other Direction Too
“She was a woman loved, and therefore lovely, and therefore loving” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 108).