At the point Christ came, the true faith had been kept alive up to that point, after a fashion, among the Jews. I say it was kept because of the many faithful believers among them who were looking in true faith for the Messiah. Jesus Himself said that Israel had teachers who sat in Moses’ …
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Offending the Cultured Despisers
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #11 “For ye see your calling, brethren, how that no many wise men after the flesh, not many might, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and …
And Sin is Defined By Scripture, Not by the Genome
“Whether or not homosexual temptation is genetic, heterosexual temptation most certainly is genetic” (Fidelity, p. 41).
Preaching at the Intersection
“The supreme work of the Christian minister is the work of preaching . . . . Whenever we preach, we stand between those two things, between human need and Divine grace. We are the messengers of that grace to that need” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, pp. 12, 14).
Bulletphobia
When I was in high school, I took a sociology class, and it was just the kind of class you might expect. One day the teacher came in (a very nice young lady), and asked if any of us had ever been afraid of a black person. I helpfully raised my hand, and she called …
Ice Cubes and a Slice of Lemon
If we are talking about reading, writing, and ciphering, the state of government education in the United States is appalling. But if we reflect on what Hunter Baker points out in his The End of Secularism (p. 18), that more Americans believe in the virgin birth than believe in Darwinism, the failure of state education …
Dealing with Nuisance Lust
Note: this is an imaginary Christian couple, assembled as a composite from various counseling situations. Dear Tony, Thanks for the email and the follow-up phone call. I am glad you decided to get help with this, and I am glad that you and Suzanne are talking about it. A central part of this letter will …
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Samuel and Susannah
The book of Genesis is the book of our beginnings, but they are not simplistic beginnings. Rather, God has given us a layered and textured account what He did when He first created us, male and female, and this is an account that never fails to astonish us when we go back to learn from …
When Crushed Bones Rejoice
INTRODUCTION:If forgiveness of sin is one of the glories of the new covenant, and it is (Heb. 8: 8-12; cf. Heb. 10: 17), then this psalm is one of the glories of the entire Bible. In this psalm, we learn the greatness of forgiveness, and in the course of learning this, we learn the true …