What He Purchased, He Will Have

As we gather to worship the Lord, we need to remember. This is one of the great requirements found in many place throughout the Bible—remember. But we are not called to remember a random collection of denominational distinctives. This kind of thing is done so that we can keep denominations and churches straight in our …

Half an Inch of Ice on the Pond of Hubris

In his chapter “Appropriating Postmodernism,” Westphal says some good things. The devil, as we shall see, is in his applications, but in isolation he says some really good things where I believe we can all agree. “Postmodernism tends to slide in the opposite direction, from ‘We have no absolute insight’ to ‘There is no absolute …

The Envy of the Hollow

“Like mimetic desire, envy subordinates a desired something to the someone who enjoys a privileged relationship with it. Envy covers the superior being that neither the someone nor something alone, but the conjunction of the two, seem to possess. Envy involuntarily testifies to a lack of being that puts the envious to shame, especially since …

True Rejection of Hellenism

“Johnny Cash . . . lists in the liner notes to his album Unchained what he likes in music: I love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgment day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak, and …

Death By Sabbath

“But the first principle is given clearly by Isaiah: Call the Sabbath a delight (Is. 58:13). And even this verse is abused whenever truncated, narrow, and parsimonious Sabbath observance is substituted for the real thing. The cranky Sabbatarian, who ‘cooks kids in their Sabbath milk,’ does not limit this destructive behavior to one day in …

Westminster Two: Of God, and of the Holy Trinity

1. There is but one only (Deut. 6:4; 1 Cor. 8:4, 6), living, and true God (1 Thess. 1:9; Jer. 10:10), Not that this should be necessary to say, but the Christian faith is monotheistic. But this does not mean that “Christianity” is a belief system which contains one God within it, so that people …