Just a reminder to sign up for the Christ Church ministerial conference. The topic this year is sexual orthodoxy, and the dates are October 15-16, 2009. More info can be found here, or by clicking on the pic.
Wells They Did Not Dig
Rodney Stark’s book, The Victory of Reason, is a wonderful assembler of pieces. He pointed out a number of things I already knew, but had not considered the implications of before, and then added greatly to the number of such facts — and all with the same implications. For those who understand that economic liberty …
Never Trust a Theologian . . .
Yesterday at church I saw a bumper sticker on a friend’s car that summarizes a lot of things wonderfully. “Never trust a theologian who hasn’t been executed.” Of course if we understand the spirit of the thing, we would not just limit ourselves to men like Cranmer, burned at the stake, but could also include …
Calvin and the Holy Catholic Church
Book 4/Chapter 1 The holy catholic church (section 1) 1. How does Christ become ours? 2. But what do we need because of our ignorance and sloth? 3. Why sacraments? 4. What has the papacy done? 5. If God is your Father, who may you call your Mother? Church and creed (section 2) 1. What …
Ends and Odds
Some friends of ours have ventured into the world of movie making. You can check out their first offering here. David Bahnsen does a fine job dissecting the mythologies that people are trying to construct around the various financial debacles we arrange for ourselves, said people doing so in order to justify doing the same …
But Our Rationed Health Care Will Only Be This Way Until We Find the Magic Wand
HT: Hugh Hewitt
What Sort of House Shall It Be?
In Ps. 22: 3, we are told that God is holy, and that He inhabits the praises of Israel. What does that mean? We are the people of God, and when we sing, when we praise God, we are constructing a dwelling place for Him? So what kind of place should we build? How should …
Not a Tiny Works Club
Partaking of the bread and wine is a privilege that our children grow up with. It is our practice to come to this Table with our little ones. This is of course a debate matter in the broader Christian world, and one of the things we should do because of this is guard ourselves at …
Prayer of the Fatherless
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 kneel before You now, the one who searches every …
The Great Luge Run to Perdition
If you read through the linked article on homosexuals in ministry, you will find yet another example of what happens when professing Christians try to reconcile the plain teaching of Scripture with what their lusts are demanding of them. What to do? What to do? Why you “wrestle with the issues.” You grapple with them. …