“And in some of the subtle cases, we have to consider what a Christian worldview almost is. In the first place, a Christian worldview is not the same thing as Christian worldview jargon. The oldest trick in the world is to attach oneself to some promising movement or other by simply putting on the uniform …
When Someone Else Is Petty
We are living in times of polarization and conflict. We see this in families, we see it in the Church at large, and we see it in our nation. The bonds of fellowship are strained or broken, and open turmoil can break out with the slightest provocation. Our time is not unique in this respect; …
Deliver Me As You Have Said
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Why do You not stoop to my cry? Come near, oh Lord, and hear Grant me the wisdom of Your Word, And let my supplication come, Deliver me as You have said. My lips will utter all Your praise, When You have …
The Real Miracle
The God of all creation, heaven and earth, sea and dry land, is a wonder-working God. He is the God of extraordinary miracles, and He is the God of all the ordinary miracles as well. What is more miraculous than all the ordinary things that surround us on every hand. God is the author of …
Post Fourth Meditation
“Faith exhibits itself in works, and above all in fireworks.” — G.K. Chesterton This is from an essay entitled ‘Cardboard Noses’ in the November 25, 1905 issue of the Illustrated London News. HT: Mark Beauchamp
For the Week Past
Father in heaven, we thank You now in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord, and we ask that Your Holy Spirit would be with us here as we celebrate the arrival of yet another Lord’s Day. We thank You for the week past, and how it was built on the last Lord’s …
Faith Sees Better Than That
As we come to the Lord’s Table, we are seeking to be fed. The food and drink available to us here are the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Put another way, we are being made partakers of His perfect humanity as we come, and are being nourished up into that humanity, bone …
Flipping Through the Doctor’s Magazines
We do many things in this service through rote repetition – we follow the drill. Contrary to the views of many in the contemporary church, there is no necessary spiritual death in this. But contrary to the view of certain diehard traditionalists, there is no automatic life in it either. We serve God through faith. …
Some Arguments Against Evolution
“It [evolution] gives us almost everything the imagination craves – irony, heroism, vastness, unity in multiplicity, and a tragic close. It appeals to every part of me except my reason.” C.S. Lewis Arguments against the theory of evolution can be classified into four broad categories. We may call them particular evidences concerning questions of fact …
Meddle Not
“When offenses abound, it is often most safe to be least appearing, except a man’s call is the more clear and convincing. For as in the multitude of words there wants not sin, so in much meddling there wants not offense” (Durham, p. 36).