The book of Genesis, the book of beginnings, repays repeated visits. In this book we see, obviously, the beginning of the heavens and earth. But we also see the beginning of God’s ways with man—in His covenant dealings, in His establishment of work and vocation, and in His creation of marriage. But when God creates …
Holiness Becomes Common
This great vision is presented to us in apocalyptic form. This means it belongs to a certain literary genre, just like parts of Daniel, the Gospels, and the book of Revelation. The word apocalypsis (just like the Latin revelatio) refers to an unveiling, or lifting of the curtain. This enables us to see what is …
Officially Controversial
The apostle Peter uses the word athesmos twice, and our translators have rendered it as wicked. In the first instance (2 Pet. 2:7), he is treating the subject of Lot, and how he was continually exasperated by the filthy behavior of the inhabitants of Sodom. In the second (3:17), he is warning the recipients of …
Warm to the Work
“Do not start at the highest pitch as a rule, for then you will not be able to rise when you warm with the work; but still be outspoken from the first” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 117).
Bit By Bit
“Not all personalized expression looks good to other people, of course. Especially in the early days of desktop publishing, a lot of amateurs went in for the multifont ransom-note look. PowerPoint presentations are still often hard to read or cluttered with clichéd clip art, and the Web is full of ugly sites. But, on the …
Like Butterscotch Pudding
One of the things I learned from Rushdoony (is that okay to admit?) is the concept of tolerance as false truce. All law is imposed morality, and the only question is which morality is going to be imposed, not whether one is going to be imposed. Periods of “tolerance” are times when this appears not …
Prospective Student Weekend
For those thinking about college, and where you are going to send your kid — and who isn’t these days? — you should really think about NSA’s prospective student weekend coming up. Here you go.
The Shepherd is Struck
As the burden continues, God promises blessings mixed with chastising refinements. God promises judgments from which great blessings come. “‘It shall be in that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered…'” (Zech. 13:2-9). Remember that in …
Godless
Our word atheist refers to a person who either denies that there is a God, or denies that we can know if there is or not. The word atheos is used once in Scripture, in Ephesians 2:12. There it refers to those who are “without God,” that is, godless. But certain things go with being …
So Don’t Drone On, Like a Bee in a Pitcher
“Scarcely one man in a dozen in the pulpit talks like a man” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 111).