Nate’s Tilt-a-Whirl is reviewed at Christianity Today, here.
Triangles Don’t Have Outliers
In a previous thread Jane Dunsworth asked the question when it comes to all questions of “reading culture.” How do you tell the difference between some manifestation of lowlife culture and that same thing (apparently) adopted and carried out by someone whose respectability is beyond question? Hmmm? The problem is the same regardless of how …
Predestination and Fatalism
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) “Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if …
Power of the Keys
Book 4/Chapter 6 Submission to Rome (section 1) 1. What is the principle of unity for the Roman church? 2. How do the Romanists define schism? Aaron and sons (section 2) 1. What argument for papal supremacy is made from the Old Testament? 2. How does Calvin answer this? The word to Peter (section 3) …
A Slow Process of Wicked Thinking
Here is something to think through carefully. Sin has a gestation period, and you can’t be pregnant forever.
Plucking At Your Sleeve
There is a view afoot, I am afraid, that holds that when Paul says law he is always referring to the Torah. The works of the law, therefore, are those works that maintain the covenant boundary markers, which were given by grace. The works of the law understood in this way are part of the …
Instruments in Worship
In Ephesians 5, the apostle Paul requires musical instrumentation in worship. He says there that we are to be “speaking to [one another] in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in [our] heart to the Lord” (Eph. 5:19). The translation in the heart would better be rendered as with the heart. …
Breaking Bread, Breaking Sin
This bread is the sacrament of the body of the Lord, as He put it. And when He picked it up in the institution of this meal, He took the bread that represented His own body, and He gave thanks, and He broke it. The remarkable grace and love that we see here is striking, …
Receiving Grace
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 and God, You are the God of all grace, and …
Night Shift at the Flying J
So let’s talk about nose rings for a minute. In our recent discussion of tattoos, the nose ring question developed into a significant sideshow, and so a few specific words should be addressed in this direction as well. The first thing to point out (and which I have pointed out elsewhere) is that nose rings …