Last Friday, a friend named Scott Minnich addressed the weekly disputatio at New St. Andrews. Dr. Minnich is a professor in microbiology at the University of Idaho, and he testified in the recent trial in Dover, PA as an expert witness on behalf of Intelligent Design. His talk was fascinating — with regard to the …
Turn Back My Eyes From Vanity
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Educate me now, Oh Lord In Your statute law And I will keep it to the end, And I will walk within the way, Until this journey finally ends. Give an understanding heart So that I keep Your law, With all my …
Report Cards
One evening, a mother was talking with her daughter about her grades. The problem was not what you might expect—the girl’s grades were perfect. She had never gotten a B in her life, and she wasn’t about to start now. But her parents were concerned about her nevertheless. “Are you asking me to not study?” …
Away From Alien Tables
We know, in coming to this Table, that we are solemnly and joyfully renewing our vows, and those vows include a deep commitment to stay far away from all alien tables. We cannot commune here, and at the table of demons, as St. Paul teaches. We are also committing ourselves to stay far away from …
Convenience Store Therapy
“Television entertainments tend to avoid problems that can’t be solved by the end of the hour.” [David Wells, No Place for Truth (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993), p. 200.]
Lazarus Didn’t Help Do It
“A dead man is in no shape to prepare himself for resurrection. He is impotent. When Christ raised Lazarus from the dead, it was not a cooperative effort between the two. Christ raised him, and then Lazarus came forth” (The Paideia of God, pp. 62-63).
Keeping the Cash Register
Just a short post to tie up my thoughts on the last chapter of Stanley Grenz’s book on postmodernism. The book was informative (for the most part) and with a few exceptions a good review of the characters and players in all this. But coming to the last chapter, I have to confess that my …
A Cute Descendant
Now that I know how to do this, you can expect to see pictures of my grandchildren from time to time. Just one of the costs of checking in on this blog. This is Evangeline.
God Above
Gracious God above us, we thank You in the name of Jesus Christ, and we pray to You in the authority that the Holy Spirit gives to us. We look forward to the arrival of yet another Lord’s Day, another opportunity to rejoice before You together with our people. We thank You for the food, …
The Power of the Cultural Vacuum
“What is now in place is not exactly an alternative system of belief. What is in place is no system of belief at all. It is more like a vacuum into the quiet emptiness of which the self is reaching for meaning – and finding only itself. But this is to put the matter more …