I don’t mind saying how excited I am by this particular bit of news. Canon Press has been doing some wonderful work behind the scenes for months now, getting ready for this particular roll out — and here we are. The goal has been to figure out how much content we can give away for …
A Conservative What?
Somebody, I think it was William James, once referred to the scramble for the good words. And because words go in and out of fashion, the scramble can get pretty tangled and pretty interesting. People get tired of the liberals, and so everybody wants to be conservative, whatever that means. When they get tired of …
Free Speech That Does Not Fall Under the CO2 Regs
I have a lot to learn around here. Let’s see if I can post a picture. Â
Which Means You Can Probably Make It Now
I previously had occasion to plug a conference hosted by our friends at Emmanuel in north London. I bring this up so that you may be apprised of the fact that they have had to change the dates. Just so you know .
Damned for Being Underfoot?
Just ran across this, and it seems to me to be N.T. Wright’s central mistake, one that generates a host of lesser mistakes. “We have got over the old idea that law-keeping was an early form of Pelagianism, by which Pharisees and others sought to earn their justification or salvation by moral effort” (N.T. Wright, …
He Has Done It Already
Everyone here wants things, and there is no problem with that. That is a design feature; it is how God made us. But there are frequently deep problems with how and why we want things. And the central problem is that we tend to want things that God gave to someone else, simply because that …
The Cup and Platter of Faith
When we commune with God, it is always because He gives Himself. It is always because He reveals Himself. It is always because He meets with us in accordance with His promises, and it is because we believe those promises. It is never because we have captured Him. It is never because God was successfully …
Confessing Our Weakness
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 rejoice in Your gracious provision of a high priest, …
Bug Hunt
Okay, we have rolled over to our new format, for the most part. Like I said, some of you are not reading this because you live in a rural part of Internetistan, and all you can hear are the crickets. But in a day or so you will come over and you can catch up …
Skyler and Chelsey
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, welcome to you all. Let us pray. Our Father and God, we know how You delight to bless Your people, and we thank You that these blessings include the goodness of marriage. We rejoice before You now in the formation of a new union, and …