“The preaching and the hearing of the Word of God is in the last analysis worship, worship in its most profound sense . . . the proclaiming of the Word of God, simply in itself, is high service to God. The solemn reading and preaching of Scripture in the midst of the congregation is a …
Touching Sensitive Areas, or TSA For Short
Here are some points to keep in mind as the controversy about the TSA wends it way through our various news cycles and perhaps, let us hope, into a bill in the new Congress. 1. It does the old heart good to see people get riled up with government incompetence and . . . what’s …
Classical Ed Meets Classic Rock
Just a teaser right now. More information and appropriate credits will follow.
Gratitude and Its Alternative
INTRODUCTION:This Lord’s Day is the first after our Thanksgiving holiday, and is also the first Sunday in Advent. Because we want to stand against what might be called morbid penitentialism, we want this season to be suffused with a glad anticipation. The only conviction we want to awaken would be a spirit of penitence for …
Give It Up or Give It Away
God has been kind enough to give us yet another Advent season, and so we should be resolved to live in it as true Christians. This means standing against the spirit of this age. This means learning what Scripture intends when it says that there is a way that seems right unto a man, and …
Two Pieces of Fudge
This is our first celebration of the Lord’s Supper in the Advent season for the year of our Lord, 2010. And note that word celebration. When we celebrate God’s grace to us here, we are learning how to celebrate His goodness in every aspect of our lives, and that includes our orientation to festivals like …
Cut to the Heart
Father, You have established Jesus Christ as both Lord and Christ, and Your Word tells us that the first generation of those who heard the gospel were cut the heart by this message, by this declaration. Father, our nation is not cut to the heart, and so we pray that You would grant a spirit …
The TSA of the Reformed World
Justin Taylor posts a helpful summary by Andrew Cowan of the N.T. Wright word-flurry at ETS this year. You can read about that here. This seems a quite reasonable summary to me, and it means that Wright is not a stalking horse for some kind of Romanist self-righteousness. But this means, in its turn, that …
Ready for Harvest
Right after we filmed this, my dad told me there was a verbal slip in the clip — the baby was not me. Not germane to the general point anyhow. Story: Ripe for Harvest, with Jim Wilson from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
Marauders of Literary Fashion
Read widely enough so that you are not provincial, but not so widely that you become some sort of deracinated cosmopolitan. Walls that are too narrow can stifle all thought and originality. Walls that are not there at all leave you defenseless. Marauders of literary fashion come galloping in, and there you are. Loyalty of …