So let us begin by defining terms. Financial support of the Lord’s work can be divided into two categories–tithes and offerings. With the tithe, the amount is specified by the Lord (10% of the increase, by definition), and then three broad categories are authorized as proper recipients of this tithe. Those three categories are the …
A Bit of All Right
I really enjoyed this — the first rap song (ever, I believe) about the Heidelberg Catechism.
Getting the Foundational Creed Right
“The table of contents in every Bible is a creedal statement. When I turn to the first pages of my Bible, I see the implied word of the ancient Jewish church in rejecting Bel and the Dragon. I see the word of my Protestant forefathers in their agreement with our Jewish fathers on this point. …
And So It Is
“There probably has never been an evangelist who had a higher sense of evangelism as worship than Virginia’s Samuel Davies. It was Davies who brought the Great Awakening to the South a generation before the American Revolution. The American pulpit has never known a greater orator. For Davies, evangelism was an invitation to the Lord’s …
The 2010 Chainsaw Massacre
One of the hardest things for me to take in the election of Obama was the smug congratulatory blessing of the Europeans. Well, I think we have fixed all that now. I have mentioned before P.J. O’Rourke’s great line that this was not so much an election as it was a restraining order. It is …
Fallible Points to Infallible
“A fallible authority like the church goes not have to get everything wrong. Fallibility means that the capacity for error is there, not that error is necessarily there. Put another way, a fallible authority can point to an infallible truth. When a fallible authority says something true, that truth by definition cannot be falsifiable. And …
Christ as Preacher
“If we are truly to understand Christian preaching, we must see Jesus christ as its center. First we must see Jesus as the fulfillment of generations of preaching and teaching that went before him, and second we must see Jesus as the type, or perhaps prototype, of generations of preaching that have followed him. He …
Calculus for Puppies
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #18 “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God” (1 Cor. 2:12). The Spirit of God …
A Front Row Seat
When Angelo Codevilla’s essay on America’s ruling class came out in The American Spectator, I read it with interest. Good stuff. But then, according to later reports, the essay went viral, and I started hearing political candidates referring to our “ruling class.” The essay was such a hit that they rushed it into print as …
The Canon is a Creed
“Restorationists of all stripes have no foundation for their appeal, and hence their appeals are consistently parasitic. They get their Bible from the historic church, and then use it to attack the historic church. Another name for this is sawing off the limb you are sitting on. And so before we let them appeal to …