You come here to display Your love for God, and this is good. But this cannot be done apart from your love for your neighbor, whom you have seen. The two great commandments are always together in Scripture, like husband and wife. A husband is not a wife, but without a wife, he is no …
Keep Us From Our Own Devices
Our Lord and God, we come to You now in the great and powerful name of Jesus. We praise Your holy name through Him, and we ask You to accept our thanksgiving on the same basis. We know that we are anemic in our ability to celebrate and rejoice, and so we ask You to …
Not To Mention the Christians Who Ape Them
“So the antithesis is a given. But because it is, some will always try to misplace the antithesis. In other words, they affirm it in principle but misapply it in practice. Misplacing it is really the first of two basic ways to try to get away from this antithesis between the seed of the serpent …
Aimless Info
“Information is dangerous when it has no place to go, when there is no theory to which it applies, no pattern in which it fits, when there is no higher purpose that it serves” [Neil Postman, Technopoly (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), p. 63].
Talented Twisters
“Thus often promoters of error may be gifted with ability to reason, make queries, shift arguments and place of Scripture, preach well, pray well with a great deal of eloquence, and liberty of plausible expressions, yea, they may possibly not want, as it were, signs and wonders . . . and yet the Lord’s end …
Federal Vision Assurance
The first half of chapter five in Waters’ book addresses the question of assurance of salvation. After recognizing that I had dedicated a full chapter to this subject, and granting that I emphasized a number of subjective aspects to assurance, Waters goes on to doubt the whole deal. Because I concluded that chapter with a …
A Worldview Wheel IV
Introduction: We come now to a third “spoke” on our worldview wheel, which this week will be considered under the heading of ritual, liturgy and symbol. We have considered the value of propositional truth. We have considered the importance of practical lifestyle. Now we are going to reflect on the importance of the unspoken but …
A Two-Way Street
Postman speaks of “one-eyed prophets who see only what new technologies can do and are incapable of imagining what they will undo” [Neil Postman, Technopoly (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), p. 5].
Like Us, Only Bigger?
“God is not a larger version of us, only bigger and smarter. The Christian faith does not point to God as a Homeric deity like Zeus — an overgrown celebrity” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 98).
Why Christians Are A Handful
“The like was often Paul’s case, who at first had an easy work with people, when they were heathens, in comparison of what he had with the same when they became Christians, and tainted with false doctrine, or listeners to corrupt teachers, as in the Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians is clear” (Durham, p. …