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. Father, we confess to You now that we are a nation …
Inside Outside
The message today contains a section on debts, and the ways we sin against our duty to love others through a financial lack of love. This exhortation, and the confession that follows it, is a preparation for that message. We have grown accustomed to identify love with a feeling, and from there, we have grown …
Hindus, Tea Parties, and Social Justification
In order to offer someone a financial reward without him working for it, the government must first ensure that somebody else works for a financial reward without getting it. There is no other way. This reality is obscured by the dynamics of social justification. In every corporate body, there are the justified and the unjustified. …
How Noah’s Ark Was Way Too Wet
James Davison Hunter has this to say about contemporary Christian political involvement. “These qualifications notwithstanding, the reality is that politics is the tactic of choice for many Christians as they think about changing the world . . . It is not an exaggeration to say that the dominant public witness of the Christian churches in …
Profound Philosophical Differences
“Men stand for office because they want to get into a position that would enable them to begin stealing money with a backhoe. This is affected in our nation somewhat by our very fine two-party system, which means that we have fierce debates about what color the backhoe should be” (Joy at the End of …
A Different Gift of Tongues in Acts
“Skim a few chapters of the Book of Acts, and notice how often the preaching of the Word issues immediately in controversy and therefore in debate. It is truly noteworthy how often this happens” (Wagner, Tongues Aflame, p. 186).
Three Reasons Christians Don’t Read the Signs of the Times
1. Thoughtful Christians are embarrassed by those who pretend to be able to read the signs of the times. The simplistic analysis that attributes this tornado to the passage of that piece of tax legislation really is embarrassing. But the presence of people doing it wrong is no basis for a refusal to do it …
Why Ministers Must Be Men
My most recent title is now off to the printers. You will be able to order it here.
For our Friends in Boise
For our Boise friends, Nate will be at a 100 Cupboards event at the Boise CostCo at 2 pm on Saturday.
Brevity, the Soul of Prayer
“‘God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few’ (Eccl. 5:2) . . . So let us turn to consider the fool at his worship. Religiosity loves to bloviate before the Lord. Religious man loves his wordy prayers . . . Our Lord prayed all night sometimes . . . …