“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 92 “Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith” (Prov. 15:16). We have already seen earlier in this chapter (v. 6) that the revenues of the wicked bring trouble with them. Here in …
Cognitive Confrontation
“When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation not of a behavioral kind which is lacking in love but of a cognitive kind which holds forth ‘the truth in love’ (Eph. 4:15)” [David Wells, Above All Earthly Pow’rs (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005), p. 156].
Calling It Good
“A Christian worldview is not a matter of having an opinion about everything, with all those opinions being interconnected or, as some might say, entangled. Our lives are supposed to go together a certain way. Parents who have labored over assembling a child’s Christmas present, one with multiple parts, know that it is not sufficient …
Somebody Always Wants to Do It
“During most of the twentieth century, threats to campus free speech and academic freedom came mostly from the right, and from outside institutions of higher learning. The new attacks on free thought that arose in the late 1980s turned this pattern on its head: they have arisen from leftist sources inside the ivory tower” (Donald …
Scratch and Sniff Multiculturalism
“What multiculturalism in the curriculum assuredly does not mean is a renewed emphasis upon the mastery of foreign languages or the close study of complex civilizations . . . the campaign to impose ‘multiculturalism’ amounts to nothing less than a war on Western civilization and, beyond it, a war on the very idea of civilization” …
Burgundy Dishwater
This Supper is not a covenantal meal in the midst of a non-covenantal world. Everything we do is covenantal, which is another way of saying that everything we do is a form of fellowship, or a form of partaking. This even includes our sin. When we sin, we are trying to eat at another table …
Dinner Table Conversation
Every dinner table in every healthy family is a place of conversation, a place where we speak with one another. The table of the Lord at the conclusion of this service of worship is no different. We must therefore remember the conversational nature of a healthy worship service. This is a service of covenant renewal. …
Retained and Put On Steroids
“The autonomy of the individual that the Enlightenment championed has, in the postmodern spirituality, been retained, but also radicalized.” [David Wells, Above All Earthly Pow’rs (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005), p. 115]
Salt and Light
“Parents us this [the salt and light argument] as a reason, but they acknowledge the need for preparation to be salt and light in other settings. Who sends their kids to Vacation Bible Schools run by Mormons in order that they might be salt and light? Who sends their eight-year-old to India to be a …
A Pig in a Poke
God has established three fundamental governments among men — family, church, and state. These are the governments which He directly ordained; other governments (like the board of a trust or a corporation) are man-made. This means that men have no authority to tinker with the fundamental structures of these God-given governments — in contrast to …