“In this place, Solomon bluntly asserts that God controls all things. He does not say how God does it. Only a blockhead of the first order of magnitude would think to explain the way in which God reveals Himself through His works . . . We tend to assume, echoing Shakespeare, that the history of …
A Structural Servant
“Tricks of homiletics were repugnant to Lloyd-Jones. This does not mean he had no interest in structure. The reverse was the case. But form in a sermon is to be the preacher’s servant and not his superintendent” (Sargent, The Sacred Anointing, p. 115).
How Tight the Baptismal Wagons are Circled
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #5 “Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized …
7 Principles on Boys and Music
I have been asked by a correspondent, a teacher, how he might best study “how to motivate young men of middle and high school age to enjoy singing well to the glory of God.” Not knowing of any resources that are aimed directly at that topic specifically, I thought to jot down a few thoughts …
Additional Options Are Available
“If relativists seek after hollow minds, the godly must not respond by building minds of solid wood. Flexibility and prudence must not be confused with compromise and fear” (Joy at the End of the Tether, pp. 84-85).
The Smile of God
“There is all the difference in the world between preaching merely from human understanding and energy, and preaching in the conscious smile of God” (Martyn Lloyd-Jones, as quoted in Tony Sargent, The Sacred Anointing, p. 79)
Advisor to the Tamarack and White Pine
Jim Wallis recently offered the opening salvo of an invitation to discuss exactly how “Christian” the Tea Party movement is. I would like to briefly engage with his five points here, but not in the hope that we will wind up with an actual discussion. He, after all, is an advisor to the president, while …
Righteousness, Peace and Joy
INTRODUCTION:The apostle spends quite a bit of time and energy on this question, and this is why we are doing the same thing. What will distract us from those things on which God places great value? It will be those things on which we try to place high value, and all on our own authority …
The Problem Character in the Sketch
You have been exhorted as a people numerous times to remember who you are in the story you are in. You have been asked to think about what kind of character you are. If the day you are having were a movie, what character would you be? And would it be a sympathetic character or …
Nothing But Gift
One of the hardest lessons for us to learn is that our salvation is all of grace. We know that it is by grace; we struggle with the idea that it is all of grace. We want to shoehorn something in there that distinguishes one from another. But, though there are distinctions, and sharp ones, …