Introduction: The two chapters we are considering today are filled with many strange names (which we have already encountered), but we also learn some important lessons on the place and role of music in the work of reformation. The Text: And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also …
Hospitality and Immigration
So the issue of the day is immigration. And our first reaction as Christians should always be “what does Scripture say about it?” A summary of biblical teaching is that immigration of a certain kind is a blessing, and is fruitful, both to the immigrant and the land to which he comes. Immigration of another …
Come As You Are Told
When Jesus was assembled with His disciples at their last meal together, He identified the one who was to betray Him with a sop of bread. When He gave the bread to Judas, Satan entered into him, and Jesus said, “That thou doest, do quickly.” The Lord’s Supper is a sign and a seal of …
It Is A Throne After All
We are called to worship, meaning that we are called to see God seated on a throne, high and lifted up. If we do not see God high and lifted up, then we shall shortly conceive of ourselves, together with all our opinions, to be high and lifted up. And whenever we do this, especially …
Lust
We do not live in a time of public silence on lust. There has been no moratorium on the noise about it, the perpetual chatter that surrounds us on every side. Enticements to lust, discussions of lust, enducements to lust, are constant. Standing against this is the clear word of Scripture: “Mortify therefore your members …
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Doublethink
“Perhaps Marcuse’s ability to reconcile liberty and dictatorship has come of age, and Orwell’s characterization of such thinking as ‘doublethink’ does not bring the flash of recognition that it once did” (The Shadow University, p. 96).
Deconstructing Nehushtan
“There is another sense in which we can ‘burn incense’ to a work of art. We can overmystify it, ascribing to it supernatural or religious functions The passage on the destruction of the serpent image says that ‘it was called Nehushtan.’ The Hebrew is rather ambiguous here, but the King James Version, in what scholars …
What Does and Does Not Constitute “Movie Reform”
“If a man were to rent a video, and it turned out to be a poor movie, it is not ‘movie reform’ to rewind and try again” (The Case for Classical and Christian Education, p. 33).
Card Tricks At Presbytery
As the Dah Vinchee imbroglio heats up, we see here the “answer a fool according to his folly” response. Turns out Barney Fife of Mayberry had a son . . . HT: Dale Courtney A young man in our congregation here at Christ Church invented his own amazing card trick, and it can see seen …
Anger
As we have known for centuries, anger is a brief madness. And when a man comes to his senses again, after a fit of anger, he has plenty of leisure to repent of the damage he has done. But repairing the damage is often far more difficult than having a mere desire to repair it. …