We are Christians, and this means that Christ must be central to our understanding of the created order. We cannot understand anything apart from Him, and this understanding must be bounded and guided by Scripture. Central to the Reformed faith is a right understanding of the created order, and our place in it. “Wherefore God …
Leprosy of the Heart and Mind
The word hairesis is where we get our word heresy. Initially it simply meant faction or sect, but over time it became closely identified with that which helps sects to form — a distinctive false doctrine or teaching, which the sectarians use to distinguish themselves. The faction or “sect” of the Saducees (Acts 5:17) is …
The Preacher’s Responsibility to be Interesting
“If men’s minds are wandering far away they cannot receive the truth, and it is much the same if they are inactive. Sin cannot be taken out of men, as Eve was taken out of the side of Adam, while they are fast asleep” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 127).
Reinventing Yourself
“I like that merges into I’m like that. Identity prevails” (Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style, p. 101).
Hearing the Click
In the midst of some very kind comments about my visit to Mississippi, Steven Wedgeworth said this: “This was clearly the case on imputation. He kept proposing that the imputation of Christ’s active obedience was equivalent with recapitulation. Jesus is the new Israel, so there ya go. While I can see some of this, I …
He’s Right Here
Once there were two girls, the best of friends. They played together, went to school together, and grew up together. They even made a point of attending the same college together. Nothing could separate them, or so they thought. One day, when they were juniors, a young man in their class began showing one of …
Life to the World
In the gospel of John, Jesus feeds the five thousand in a staggering miracle—a rare miracle that is mentioned in all four gospels. He immediately follows this up by teaching His disciples that He is the bread of heaven, and that his flesh is life for the world. Now what this means is that the …
Gratitude for the Laws
Enlightenment modernist types want laws to run everything, all by themselves, and they want this in every department of human thought. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about logic, or science, or economics. They want the whole schbeal run by the law of non-contradiction, the law of gravity, and the law of supply and …
An Intra-Active Catalog
Here is a fun business. HT: David Field. Look at the site for at least five seconds before losing interest.
Always Smite the Commies
I have mentioned before the fact that I am pleased to have participated in the Cold War, first as a child doing the public school nuke drills at Germantown Elementary in Annapolis, and then later as a sailor looking at Russia through a periscope. But personal experience aside, the hot wars of the first part …