“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 …
Warm Yellow Light Pours Wisdom Out
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Quite wonderful are all Your words, And so my soul obeys. The doorway of Your law is lit, Warm yellow light pours wisdom out And so the simple gather in. My mouth is dry, my throat athirst, I long for all your …
The Family of Grendel
Once there were two men who appeared before the Lord to present their sacrifices. One of them, the eldest, was a farmer, and his younger brother was a tender of herds. In order to appear before the Lord, it was necessary to present a sacrifice of blood, but the older brother was too proud to …