Jesus made Himself known to the disciples at Emmaus in the breaking of the bread. When they returned to Jerusalem, they made a particular point about relating this aspect of the story. Now we know that the Lord deals with us in this Supper, but we sometimes assume that the only sins He deals with …
Neither Dead Works Nor Dead Faith
Faith is a gift of God, lest any man should boast. With and in this faith, all of life is sacramental, and the two sacraments proper are clear and unobstructed meetings with God in Christ. But without faith, everything becomes blurry, and religion is reduced in principle to shamanism. The faith that God gives is …
Making the World Safe for Fornication
“Peggy Noonan concluded after looking at public policy crusades during the twentieth century, that the real goal of every liberal movement is to ‘make the world safe for fornication.’ Get enough fornication going and you get a lot of people too frightened to approach God because of their guilt . . . As with the …
Except What It Means
“Young people today are desperately trying to vandalize the image of God that they carry about, despite themselves, in their bodies. God gave long hair to women as a glory and a covering — showing that the Lord is near — and yet bewildered, unprotected, and lost women now cut their hair with hedge clippers …
The Blinders of Myth
“Fundamentally, human history is a struggle between myth and gospel . . . Myth — and the primitive religious cosmology it narrates — mutes the victim’s voice. It fills the eyes and nose with incense and the ears with incantations. When the myth is firmly in place, even those closest to the victims, the ones …
Dishes and Drinks
God of all that is good, and God of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, we pray to You now in His name and in the strength of the Holy Spirit. We rejoice in how Your triune nature is embedded in all things, and for how we can be one family and yet separate individuals …
Like a Canoe Full of Bricks
Let me recommend a post over at TeamPyro, and let me do this for a couple reasons. The first is that I want to commend Frank Turk’s post there. He is a genuine non-FV guy, a baptist, and he is the only one I have encountered (thus far) that is really capable of stating my …
Table Talk
I have been asked to comment on the following statement, taken from the October edition of Table Talk. “Other revisions or rejections of orthodox covenant theology include the so-called Federal Vision movement that not only rejects the covenant of redemption; it rejects the distinction between law and gospel and the distinction between the covenants of …
Brazenly Lied About
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the world’s richest civil rights organization, puts out an unfortunately named publication called the Intelligence Report. In a recent version of that report, they decided that it was now important to talk about me. Given the nature of the case, I thought I should take snippets from their article and …
Sensation Baths Instead of Stories
“Movies are being made that tell us nothing about the struggle of the human soul. Sex, violence, bright colors, and lush sound take center stage, subordinating plot, character, and allegory to secondary roles” (Robert Knight, The Age of Consent, p. 18.).