Suppose I had a very strange experience with some of my neighbors on two successive evenings. The first night a group of my neighbors showed up at my door with a bucket of tar and a bag of feathers, and they wanted me to join them as they headed down the block to find Murphy …
No “Trick My Truck” Campaign Bus
I have been pretty busy since the tea parties of last week, and haven’t had a chance to comment on them. And as my comments have been slow-cooking in this crock pot brain of mine, a few extra carrots have gotten thrown in. First some observations and then some editorializing. So I went to see …
The Immanuel Necessity
Book 2/Chapter 12 Bridge the gulf (section 1) 1. What was of the greatest importance? 2. Where did this necessity come from? 3. Why did God have to descend to us? Children of men (section 2) 1. What were the children of men to become? 2. The heirs of Gehenna were to become what? 3. …
Musical Consistency
Music is far more central to our lives than we perhaps assume. We come into contact with music all the time—sometimes explicitly as in worship, and sometimes implicitly as with the background music in restaurants that you scarcely notice, and other times explicitly but still thoughtlessly, as with the music that many have loaded on …
Interpreting Our Lives
The Lord spoke to the people of Israel through Moses when they were on the threshold of the land they were about to inherit. He told them, as part of a series of exhortations to remain faithful to the covenant, that the secret things belong to the Lord our God, but that the things revealed …
Real Worship Music
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, as we read these words of confession from the prophet …
No Dead Cats Yet Though
The profile that CT ran on me is now available online here. My response to the article when it first appeared in the print version can be found here. If you go to read the article, make sure you take a look at the comments section. There are only nine comments as I write this, …
A Notable Mark
Book 2/Chapter 11 The difference in detail (section 8) 1. Why is the New Testament spiritual? 2. What is the final contrast between the testaments? 3. What is the difference between the moral law and the ceremonial law in the Old Testament? Bondage and freedom (section 9) 1. What is the fourth contrast between the …
Levi Jachin Hicks
“Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and …
Twinkling Afar Off
Book 2/Chapter 11 Benefits and Punishments as Types (section 3) 1. What did Calvin believe about benefits and punishments in the Old Testament era? 2. What purpose did that serve? The second difference (section 4) 1. What was the second difference between the two testaments? 2. What is the fulfillment of those figures? 3. When …