Introduction: This is categorized as one of the penitential psalms, but the heading lists it as a maskil, a teaching. In one of the other penitential pslams (51), David vows that as a result of his forgiveness, he will teach sinners the way (51:13). It is quite possible that this pslam is a fulfillment of …
Sensibilities and Powers
Let me begin with an outrageous conclusion, and then try to defend it. This is not usually a good procedure because it just gets everybody’s back up, but if the outrageous conclusion is actually the voice of sweet reason, then why not? Here is the conclusion, in a short series of statments. The only genuine …
Why Not?
Bob Dylan gets in a little grumbling about the music of the kids these days. The apocalypse is here. Take one hundred liberals at random, and between them all, they can come up with 147 kids. Do the same thing with a hundred convervatives, and the number of kids is 208. I can deal with …
The History of the Church Is the Center of World History
“In the providence of God, the kingdom of God was preached in the Greco-Roman world, and Christianity spread, for the most part, north and west. The direction of this movement has changed recently but only in the last century or so. Now the kingdom of God is not to be identified with Western culture, but …
Stories As Preachers
“Movies are finally, centrally, crucially, primarily, only about story. And those stories are finally, centrally, crucially, primarily, mostly about redemption.” (Brian Godawa, Hollywood Worldviews, p. 54).
The Uncooperative Psalmist of Israel
“The victim who speaks in the Psalms seems not in the least ‘moral,’ not evangelistic enough for the good apostles of modern times. The sensibilities of our humanists are shocked . . . The display of violence and resentment ‘so characteristic of the Old Testament’ is deplored, and is seen as a particularly clear indication …
Kinda Makes You Proud To Be An American
Okay. I give up. Resistence is useless. We will all be assimilated. HT: Purgatorio
Reminding the God Who Never Forgets
When we come to this Table, we are fed by the Lord. When we eat the bread and drink the wine, we are nourished by Him. This is a memorial of Christ’s death and resurrection, but this is not the same thing that many have assumed it to be. A memorial in scriptural language is …
Our Life
You are the covenant people of God, and You have gathered in faith today around the declaration of God’s holy gospel, and in humble reliance on the means of grace which He has given. This is your life, and your only life. What is our life? We have no life in ourselves, and our life …
Keeping An Edge On Our Kitchen Knives
“At this point, all Christian educators must know that clear thinking is a moral issue. Blurry thinking is one of the great sins of the age. To teach the dialectical stage without a constant grounding in the ethical absolutes of Scripture is worse than folly. Learning to distinguish rightly, learning to evaluate, is the meaning …