“The victim who speaks in the Psalms seems not in the least ‘moral,’ not evangelistic enough for the good apostles of modern times. The sensibilities of our humanists are shocked . . . The display of violence and resentment ‘so characteristic of the Old Testament’ is deplored, and is seen as a particularly clear indication …
Kinda Makes You Proud To Be An American
Okay. I give up. Resistence is useless. We will all be assimilated. HT: Purgatorio
Reminding the God Who Never Forgets
When we come to this Table, we are fed by the Lord. When we eat the bread and drink the wine, we are nourished by Him. This is a memorial of Christ’s death and resurrection, but this is not the same thing that many have assumed it to be. A memorial in scriptural language is …
Our Life
You are the covenant people of God, and You have gathered in faith today around the declaration of God’s holy gospel, and in humble reliance on the means of grace which He has given. This is your life, and your only life. What is our life? We have no life in ourselves, and our life …
Keeping An Edge On Our Kitchen Knives
“At this point, all Christian educators must know that clear thinking is a moral issue. Blurry thinking is one of the great sins of the age. To teach the dialectical stage without a constant grounding in the ethical absolutes of Scripture is worse than folly. Learning to distinguish rightly, learning to evaluate, is the meaning …
There Are Slugs On the Bottom of the Salad Too
“Two of the most frustrating replies to hear when asking people what they thought of a movie are ‘I liked it’ or ‘I didn’t like it,’ accompanied by an inability to explain why . . . We have already established that stories do not exist in a vacuum of meaninglessness. Movies communicate prevailing myths and …
Whether We Know It Or Not
“The Bible enables us to decipher what we have actually learned to identify in persecutors’ representations of persecution. It teaches us to decode the whole of religion . . . The Gospels do indeed center around the Passion of Christ, the same drama that is found in all world mythologies . . . We are …
Conservatives Blitz Anyway
I believe it was Samuel Francis who said that Washington D.C. was run by two political parties — the Evil Party and the Stupid Party. The same thing is true in contemporary ecclesiastical politics. We have the people who are selling out the “faith once delivered,” and then there are those who are clueless about …
Consulting With the Father
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Majestic God, Sovereign Lord, Father of Jesus Christ, we praise You now and bless Your name. Receive our praise as we offer it to You in the power of the Holy Spirit, poured out on the earth in order to make men …
Understanding Your Own Story
All of us, every day, all day long, are constructing a story. In this story that we construct, we are the hero and protagonist—sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly. Accordingly, we interpret the actions of others, weaving them into the story of our lives. If we are the protagonist rightly, then we approach those around us …