Last night I had a discussion on the radio with a fellow Christian and Christ Church critic, Keely Emerine-Mix. This was my opening statement, more or less, but, because I ran out of time, I did not get all the way through it. For those who want to check it out, the entire discussion can …
A Worldview Wheel 3
Introduction: We are considering in turn each of the “spokes” on our worldview wheel. Thus far we have seen how all four spokes work together, and we have considered the spoke of revealed and objective propositional truth. We come now to the second spoke, which is the way we actually live. The Text: “But be …
God Continues to Deal With Us
Since we have begun the practice of weekly communion, sometime ago now, we have periodically said that one of the blessings that comes from this is the identification of sins, the flushing out of sins. This is never pleasant, and we are sometimes tempted to think that before the sins were revealed to us, they …
Learning the Whole Psalter
You will no doubt notice that all the songs we are singing this morning are old and familiar to us. This is because we are now at the point in our musical reformation where we want to regularly reinforce what we know, and review what we have learned just a few years ago. This is …
Trying to Destroy the West
“But, like the Oedipus Complex, Bauhaus architecture, moral relativism, contraception, deficit spending, the automobile, and cubism, saturation bombing was used as the twentieth century’s revenge on the cultural legacy of the West. It was an attempt to use the power of the West in order to destroy the West.” [E. Michael Jones, Living Machines (San …
You Can Say That Again
“The second thing, to wit, what order and manner is to be observed in the following of public scandals, is not easily determinable, there being such variety of cases in which the Lord exercises the prudence and wisdom of his church officers” (Durham, 53).
Not An All-Purpose Disinfectant
“A Christian worldview does not somehow automatically ‘sanitize’ the world so that we can all go watch any R-rated movie we want now, for any reason we want, because ‘we have a Christian worldview.’ Put bluntly, a Christian worldview is not an excuse for compromised sinning. A Christian worldview is not an all-purpose disinfectant” (The …
A Moon-Sized Crater
I suppose that is a provocative title, but still it is nothing close to the provocative times we live in. Context is everything. Words take their meanings from the times. When certain things are done in a certain way, and at a certain time, there is no way to alter their impact or meaning by …
This Is A Great Mystery
As we meditate on the Word of God that accompanies the sacrament, we have to take care that we pray for the Word to teach us fully, which is to say, richly and mysteriously. You commune with the Lord, one with Him through the agency of the Holy Spirit, and in this communion, this partaking, …
Songs of Harvest Home
We sing before the Lord a new song. As we will sing in the ninety-eighth psalm later today, we do this because He has done great wonders. One of the wonders is the fact we can bring forth deep gratitude for those songs which we used to sing. We cannot want to grow up into …