“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Food and Drink #8 “Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. But meat commendeth us …
Obamacare and Seven Layers of Failure
Some might believe that it is premature to pronounce Obamacare a failure, since the president is only going to be signing it today. Why, some might wonder, shouldn’t we give it a chance? There is no need to give it a chance — it has already failed in seven significant ways. First, the Bible says …
Compound Interest is not God
“We believe we can pump up the Dow forever and make money at a fine clip forever . . . but we cannot. The cycles ordained by God for everything in this fallen and silly world will come around again, and many a millionaire will go white in disbelief. “How could this happen?” Friend, look …
Whack Thee Upon the Mazzard
The final report from the Standing Judicial Commission on the Leithart case is now out, and I just now finished reading through it. The judgment of the commission was that the complaint against the Pacific Northwest Presbytery was “sustained, and the case is sent back to PNW with instructions to proceed according to the Reasoning …
If the Opposite of Con is Pro, What’s the Opposite of Congress?
As I have already noted, God is still in His Heaven, and things are still all right in the world. Our God in in the heavens, and He does whatever He pleases. God draws straight with crooked lines, and the sun will still come up tomorrow. That said, I cannot let this teachable moment pass …
Too Clever By Half
The first chapter of Peter Hitchens’ book is entitled “The Generation Who Were Too Clever to Believe.” He begins with his own story, how he burned his Bible as a fifteen-year-old in full revolt against everything he had been brought up to believe (p. 17). “At that moment I knew — absolutely knew — that …
Why Things Will be Okay if Health Care Passes
Now it should be kept in mind that I am writing this brief note as a high Calvinist, one who believes that, at the ultimate level, things are always okay. God is always on the throne. But this particular song is not being written in that key. I am considering why things will be okay …
In Good Company
This morning reading through John 9, I noticed an odd juxtaposition I had never noticed before. In the exchanges between the Jewish leaders and the blind man’s parents, and then the blind man himself, something curious happens. “These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if …
Civil Obedience in Context
INTRODUCTION:As we begin the task of unpacking this crucial part of Romans, always remember the context. In the latter part of chapter 12, we saw that Paul was arguing from Dt. 32 that Moses had predicted that God would be avenged upon the Jews, and that He would use a nation that has no understanding …
A Word and a Nod Delivers
he world is governed by the Lord Jesus, as we know, but it follows from this that the world is governed by the Word—Jesus is the Word of God, the Logos of God. The world is not governed by mechanical power. It is not governed by spells or necromancy. It is governed by the magic …