Saturday Night Live had a really good one. The Political Teen has a clip of it here. And HT to Right Mind.
Performative Contradictions
In the whole kerfluffle between modernism and postmodernism, we should take our lead from Paul at Athens. He did not go there in order to determine whether he was closer to the Epicureans or to the Stoics. They had many differences, but at bottom they were both pagan systems of thought with a deep foundational …
Do Not Forake Your Servant
Minister: Lift up your hearts!Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! And blessed are those who undefiled Walk in the ways of God,Who walk according to His laws,Who keep His testimonies sure, And seek their God with all their heart. Iniquity they will not do, They walk in holy ways.For You command obedience,That we …
Junipers and Streets
Once there was a boy who had just learned to ride his bicycle. He had never had training wheels, but the previous Saturday his father had spent a good portion of the morning trotting behind the bike and holding the seat, letting go of it for a few seconds from time to time. After much …
Practicing More
This Table is the culmination point of all that we have done in assembled worship. Here all the hymns, psalms, prayers, amens, confessions, and heedings converge. This is the place where it all comes down. As we never tire of reminding you, it does not do this because it is a magic table, or because …
You Can Climb Out of a Hole, But You Can’t Dig Out
We live in a day when few people, including many Christians, understand what justice really is. In this series, we are not talking about a conversation between friends, or between a husband and wife. If a wife were to ask her husband if he would mind not interrupting when their youngest daughter is trying to …
Aesthetic Berserkers
[A certain literary critic] “was charging through the corridors of beauty with a literary sledgehammer, taking wild swings at anything that smacked of nobility or purpose” [Bryan F. Griffin, Panic Among the Philistines (Chicago, Regnery Gateway, 1983), p. 119.]
Half As Hard
“I was once speaking with a mother who was wanting to excuse her son’s behavior because of certain circumstances which she believed were rigged against him. I did not agree with her, but her assumption led to an interesting question. She believed that her son was living in a world where he would have to …
The Captain of Our Salvation
We must never forget the central theme of this book, which is the supremacy of Christ. In this next verse, we need to consider the supremacy of Christ in His authority to save. “For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to …
Lavished Grace
Gracious God and Lord, we thank You for all the provision that You have lavished upon us. We are very grateful, and we would like to thank You now for the food, for the wine, for the hands that prepared all that we see before us, and for the fellowship that we will enjoy around …