“Of course the very fact that nowadays we look upon convictions as personal possessions is a symptom of the disappearance of the Christian mind” (Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind, p. 40).
Father Abraham Had Many Sons
“‘Wherefore we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire’ (Heb. 12:28-29). Let those words, reverence and godly fear, roll around in the mind and heart while you sing through some inane song, …
Feeding the Beast
“You will say, ‘These were wont to be very entire friends. How came they to break? What has either of them done? What unkindness has befallen them?’ None at all, only that principle of self was not so fully fed as it desired to be. Upon that they began to be reserved, and so strange, …
Middle-Aged Congregations
By the grace of God, our church has grown significantly over the years. Also by the grace of God, our church has actually survived through these years. We are now facing the temptations and obstacles that churches our size and our age have always faced. When we were young and small, and no one had …
Kings and Priests, Not Martinets
We have been considering this Table as a place where we, the people of God, give counsel to our Lord. In one sense, this may sound exciting, but taken another way, it should be troubling.We must never forget the Creator/creature distinction. And this means that we must never pretend that we have knowledge, or wisdom, …
A Double Order of Golden Brown Buttermilks
A reply to some of the (very deserved) criticisms of the PCA study committee on the Federal Vision can be found here. The PCA will be addressing this issue at their GA in the coming days, and so I would urge everyone to pray that God would protect that denomination from an act of theological …
Joel and Christine
As we should all know, we are now, right his minute, in the middle of a ritual. In one sense, everyone here knows and understands what it all means, and that’s why we came, but in another important sense, no one here understands the full ramifications of this. Rituals are amazing in their depth, and …
Overwhelmed and Encouraged
Week after next Nancy and I will be in Atlanta with hundreds of other classical Christian educators for the annual ACCS conference. These conferences are always a wonderful time, and the phrase that I have used to describe them is “simultaneously overwhelming and encouraging.” If you are at all interested in the recovery of classical …
The Education of the Lord
Those who are involved in the work of rebuilding Christian education in our culture are usually familiar with Paul’s words in Ephesians 6:4. He says in that place that fathers are to take care to bring up their children in “the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” This is taken vaguely by some as an …
Fear of Being Blessed
In this chapter, we come to the covenant sanctions. The first part contains the blessings which follow obedience, the latter portion, four times as long, contains the curses. The terms have been set out, the covenant renewed. What will happen if Israel keeps covenant? What will happen if they do not? “And it shall come …