“In Nietzsche, the ethic of transgression has been stripped of scenes of explicit sexual torture and destruction and raised to an alluring intellectual Valhalla of lyric philosophy. We have no evidence that Nietzsche ever read the divine marquis. Nevertheless, the philosopher of the Overman offers a modified product with enhanced appeal for some: Sade without …
No Covenantal Island
“This shows us that the sacrament is not a covenantal island in the middle of a noncovenantal world. Rather, everything around us must be seen in covenantal categories — unbelief included — with the Table of the Lord at the center of believing covenantal living” (Mother Kirk, p. 100).
Worth a Look
This is an absolutely amazing bit of juggling. As my father-in-law says, “Who has more fun than people?” HT: David Field
Solid Joys and Lasting Treasure
Food is substantive. We are alive and so we eat food that is tangible, weighty. We are not sitting down to this Table in Sheol, or Hades, a place of grim shadows and shades. So we are not eating shadow food, but rather the bread of heaven. On the level of our physical senses, of …
Easter 2007
This is April 8, Resurrection Sunday, 2007, anno Domini, year of our Lord. This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it! When a man comes back from the dead, everything in all history must eventually center on that man. When a man is executed by the most …
For This, And All Your Good Gifts . . .
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Our God and Father, Father of Jesus Christ, God of the Holy Spirit, we pray to You now in the name of Jesus, and by the strength given to us by the Holy Spirit, and amen. You are the one who raised …
The Visible Part of the Invisible Visible Church
On an earlier post, Green Baggins posted a link to his blog, marking a place where Andy Gilman had responded to something I had written on Scott Clark’s blog. Andy had responded to it on yet another blog, and then sent a copy of it over to Green Baggins, and so GB came over here …
Employment Opportunity in Moscow
Put this under the heading of “a little help for our friends.” Dr. John Grauke is a good friend of mine, and is a general practitioner here in Moscow. You can check out the web site for his practice here. He is currently looking for qualified mid-level help for his practice (a nurse practitioner or …
Holy Friday 2007
In the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus, we see that God the Father in His infinite wisdom determined to have the eternal Logos take on human flesh. In this, the universal Word became a particular Word, without ceasing to be the everlasting and infinite expression of the Father’s wisdom. This, of course, was all done …
The True Church Within the Church
This must be national Green Baggins Day. I want to post just a few comments about an article posted at that blog by the Rev. Wes White. In this article, he critiqued what he thought to be my take on the visible/invisible church distinction. My position on the visible/invisible church distinction is represented thusly: “We …