INTRODUCTION: The duties of a godly parent are profound and challenging. This is particularly the case when you are dealing with little ones who cannot explain anything to you. They don’t know their own heart, and they could not tell you about if they did. We have to get our guidance from Scripture. And like …
Panic and Prudence
Economics is theological. How we spend our money, both individually and collectively, reveals the true nature of the god we worship. Do we worship the God of the Bible or do we worship Mammon? For consistent Christians, it should make very little difference to them whether it is Mammonism of the right or Mammonism of …
Friendship Evangelism
Some time ago, I spoke at Collegiate Reformed Fellowship on Friendship Evangelism. Canon has carried a recording of that talk for a while. Last week, I reworked the material and expanded it, and preached on the same subject this last Lord’s Day. You can find the most recent message here.
Let’s Just Call It Cold, White Stuff
We should be getting somewhere between 5 inches to a foot of new snow on Thursday. And as it stands, we already have a little walkway shoveled up to our front door, with the current snow coming up to my knees. Nancy and I both have four-wheel drive, so we are still getting up the …
Sin and Shame
Sin and shame are closely related. It was not for nothing that Adam and Eve hid when they heard the Lord coming in the Garden. The word aischron is rendered as shame in three places. In 1 Cor. 11:6, the apostle Paul says that it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or …
Seems Reasonable
“Take it as a rule without exception, that to be able to overflow spontaneously you must be full” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 145).
Catechism at the OK Corral
“Most viewers simply feel captured by a film like Death Wish or The Shootist. They are not aware of being ritually instructed, because myths derive from and appeal to the unconscious rather than the conscious mind. Although the process within an individual may be largely unconscious, the mythical paradigms of his culture have already been …
So It’s Division You Want?
Speaking of Matt. 24:49-51: “That evil servant who began to smite his fellow servants provoked his lord against him so as to come upon him with such severity as to cut him asunder and to appoint his portion with the hypocrites. He will ‘dichotomize’ him, divide him in two. He, by smiting his fellow servants, …
Christ the Lord of the Table
Christ as Lord of the Table refers of course to the Lord’s Table, even though most of what we will consider does not connect to the Lord’s Supper directly. But, as we shall see, our life together always connects to this Table, and indirect connections are not unimportant connections. This is beause we are to …
More on Speech
The apostle Paul took a dim view of dirty talk. In Colossians 3:8 he uses the word aischrologia to prohibit filthy communication. In our previous discussion of this (on Eph. 5:4), we noted that we need to take our directions on this from the robust apostles and not from the prim Victorians. Now where might …