One gray afternoon, there were five people standing at a bus stop. There was a minister with his clerical collar, a school teacher, a mechanic, a professor, and a street walker. The bus was running a little late, and so they all lined up eagerly when they finally saw it approaching. But when the doors …
Nothing Can Stop Him
The Lord’s Supper is not impotent. The Lord’s Supper does not need our protection. If I were standing up here with an enormous lion, I do not expect that I would get many questions after the service, wondering “how I protected it.” In fact, I might not get any questions at all. But if I …
Humiliating the Apostle
We must consider another variation on “by their tactics ye shall know them.” When controversy erupts in a church, and it is over the color of the carpet in the nursery, the end result can be a personal and/or ecclesiastical mess. But when the stakes are higher, it is not rare for the civil magistrate …
Crushed Boldness
As we live out our Christian lives, we must always remember that this is not something we do detached from God, for God. Rather, we are to live our lives in Christ, and on the basis of what He has done for us. Our central interest is therefore the gospel, and the great truths of …
In Our Deliverance
Father and God, we praise You now in the name of Jesus Christ. We thank You for this arriving Sabbath, and thank You that we are given the privilege of marking His resurrection from the dead every week. We know that apart from that resurrection, we would all be dead in our sins, and so …
Simple Rhythms of Life
“The educated class has conquered all and hegemonized its Bobo culture over affluent regions from coast to coast. Now the Babbitt lion can mingle with the beatnik lamb at a Pottery Barn, a Smith & Hawken, a Museum Shop, a Restoration Hardware, a Nature Company, a Starbucks, or any of the other zeitgeist-heavy institutions that …
Food Stamps for Conservatives
“Third, vouchers expose the essential hypocrisy of many of our attitudes on public policy. Educational vouchers are nothing but food stamps for conservatives. It is remarkable how often we do not see the principle involved. We simply react to some ‘wasteful’ program, defining wasteful as ‘someone else getting the money.’ Until we learn to fight …
Kant Saves the Day
In his next chapter (4), Grenz does a good job summarizing the views of the modernists, against whose goads the postmodernists have been kicking. He says, “if we are to understand the postmodern agenda, we must look at the rise of the modern mentality to which contemporary thinkers are so vehemently responding” (p. 57). We …
A New Testament Deuteronomy
God loves a cheerful giver. Those who work frantically in His presence displease Him. Those who believe, those who enter rest, are equipped for evangelical work — refreshed work. Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the …
And the Jaws of the Papist Trap Snap Shut
Well, the truth is finally out. You can read it here.