A young Reformed believer heading off to college should be able to learn the five solas of the Reformation — yea, even the six ordinary days of creation. But this requires further development. Over the last number of years, since the eruption of the FV controversy, we have of course been involved in the public …
Designer Vestments: Renouncing the World in Style
A worthwhile discussion about vestments is being had over at Baylyblog. If you join that discussion, be sure to behave.
The Commandment of the Everlasting God
INTRODUCTION:We now come to the final blessing, the final benediction. In this letter, Paul has given us a mere synopsis of his gospel, and that synopsis is overwhelming. If the entire gospel were to be laid out for us all at once, we would be crushed by the glory of it. Never forget that God …
Don’t Come Unless You Want Some
There are many complementary contrasts between the old and new covenants, and one of them has to do with the relative potency of sin. In the old covenant, sin is contagious. In the new covenant, holiness is. In the old covenant, God’s people were consistently warned against coming into contact with the unclean—with dead bodies, …
Red for Our Red
We want our sins to be reckoned as tiny for numerous reasons. One is the obvious self-justifying one, but we also want our sins to be small because we want God’s forgiveness to be a reasonable forgiveness. We want God to be a gentleman, the kind of being who would obviously be well-bred enough to …
Close and Far the Wrong Way
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Our Father and great God, we do come before You with …
A Different Kind of Spine
The proposed Ground Zero mosque provides us with a wonderful case study of public square issues, and of the great need for a new Christendom. And since the opportunities in this situation to gain wisdom are enormous, it is not surprising that just about everybody is refusing to do so. The “hallowed ground” meme has, …
Andrew and Ashlynn
God loves to teach us by throwing one thing alongside another. Parallelism is one of His central teaching devices, and He has many ways of putting things in parallel. When two things are lined up together, we compare and contrast them, and we see what they have in common and in what ways they are …
Loving the Divisions God Made
“In the world created by the triune God of Scripture, the boundaries don’t blur, like a watercolor left out in the rain. God divides, and he loves to call those divisions good. God created heaven and earth, which created the fundamental division between that which is God and that which is not God. The gulf …
Crossing Our Corruptions
“If the law is the revealed will of God, and the minister is the angel of God, then where should they seek the will of God but at the mouth of his angel? Such is the logic of this text [Mal. 2:7]: we should ‘seek the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger …