Sorry I got out of the sermon plug groove. Don’t know what happened. But here is a link to last week’s message on the coming glory. And I just finished the outline for next’s Lord’s Day. The passage is overwhelming– Romans 8:19-27.
Too Deep for Words/Romans XXIX
INTRODUCTION: The glory welling up with us is the future of the creation, and it is the future of the entire creation. This is a much neglected passage, perhaps because the view from here is so stupefying. We don’t quite know how to take it in—but that is all right because the Spirit will help …
The Grace of Disgrace
GRACE & PEACE “At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) “Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because …
Evil Skews Everything
Sorry for the category this is under. Closest I have. In the course of our discussions of Medicare, and inconsistent Christian use of the same, I made a passing reference to Medicare use by “hobbyist” midwives. Discussion on this point rapidly developed into its very own sideshow, deteriorating rapidly from the point about government aid …
Private and Public Prayer
Book 3/Chapter 20 Private prayer (section 28) 1. What should accompany our reception from God’s hand all the blessings He gives? 2. If we fail to offer Him praise for His blessings, what is our silence? 3. Why do some mumble as they pray? Public prayer (section 29) 1. Does God appoint public hours for …
More Medicare Thuggeries
Let us speak further of Medicare thuggeries, since that subject seems to have everybody riveted. This will not be a long post, since the principles are pretty easy to explain. But the discussion in our nation will still be a long discussion and debate, largely because Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. But here it is …
The Mother of Right Prayer
Book 3/Chapter 20 Departed saints (section 24) 1. What would prayers to the departed saints do to “their own repose”? 2. And what do such prayers presuppose about the saints abilities? Invocation of the patriarchs (section 25) 1. What did invocation of the patriarchs mean? 2. Whose name should we rather put forward rather than …
Terrible at Math
Christians and how they pay for their health care is a topic that just keeps on unfolding. Here are a few extra thoughts. My next point has to do with the nature of Christian testimony before the world. Julian the Apostate lamented how well the early Christians took care of one another, and the icing …
Angels and Saints
Book 3/Chapter 20 One mediator (section 20) 1. What error of the Sophists does Calvin address next? 2. Who alone bears the petitions of God’s people to God? Departed saints (section 21) 1. How would departed saints need to petition God? 2. What is the import of this observation? 3. Why do people feel a …
No Non-Euclidian Scales
Music can be divided into three general categories—music you should repent of, music you can grow from, and music you can grow into. Music can be repented of for two reasons. The more obvious would be the intellectual musical attempts to declare the world to be a different kind of place than God created it …