Quare Fremuerunt Gentes Psalm 2 What ails this heathenish rage? What do these people mean To mutter murmurs vain? Why do these earthly kings, and lords such meeting make And counsel jointly take Against the Lord of lords, the Lord of every thing And His anointed king?
Special Parking Privileges
So, a professor at Columbia has been charged with some kind of incestuous relationship, and everybody was apparently a consenting adult, and so we are, again, face to face with the public incoherence of our rudderless sexual ethic. How is it possible, given all that we as a society have already granted, for us to …
Double Honor
The first in a series on ministerial compensation . . . We need to begin with the honor. When God tells us to do something, we should do it, and we should try to solve any problems that have resulted from our obedience after the fact. We must not try to anticipate any such problems …
A Dirty Fire
In James 3:6, we are told how destructive the tongue is. It is called a fire, and then a whole cosmos of unrighteousness. Listed among our body’s members, the tongue has the effect of staining the whole body, and setting time on fire. The body (soma) is stained, and the whole “course of life” is …
Hope That Purifies
INTRODUCTION:Everything God does in our world is aimed at glorifying His name through the salvation of sinners like us. He declared his saving intentions right after the Fall, in the first pages of Scripture. He unfolded more and more details as the era of the patriarchs and prophets went on, and then, when it was …
You’re Both Right
Nonbelievers spend all their time in a life of death (Eph. 2: 1-2). They are dead in their trespasses and sins in which they live. Believers are privileged to be given a dying life, while the unbeliever has nothing but a living death. We are privileged to die that we might live, while they live …
Who Desperately Needs It
We are going to hear a message this morning on the nature and reality of personal holiness. This is a perilous kind of message, because we constantly want to give the edification found in such messages to somebody else, who desperately needs it. Ambrose Bierce once defined a Christian as one who believes the New …
Our True Condition
Father, our national condition of sin is desperate. We want to be known as virtuous, but still want to keep our sin. We want the accolades that come from righteousness, but do not want the trouble of actually being that way. And so we posture and pretend. We pray, therefore, on behalf of a corrupt …
Dawn Treader
Okay, so let me bring everybody up to speed on cinematic Narnia. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was okay, Prince Caspian was just a couple of notches this side of terrible, and Nancy and I went to see Dawn Treader last night. Let me tell you about it, shall I? The Narnia movies …
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“The more stodgy sort of ecclesiastical politicians may not be able to inspire their congregations, but they do, on the other hand, have a way of keeping things in their control. Paul obviously had charisma, and great preaching needs charisma even if the less gifted have a way of feeling threatened by it. Charisma by …