Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! God of all heaven, Lord over all the earth, we come to worship You now in the kind name of Jesus Christ our Lord. You are the one in whom we live and move and have our being. Not one hair can …
The Next Christendom
As we have said numerous times, we here at Christ Church do not have a political agenda. By this we mean that we do not intend to embrace the idea that the Christian faith is just another player in the marketplace of ideas, and that we need to agitate in various ways to make our …
Haves and Have Nots
When it comes to the Lord’s Supper, the problem of the haves and the have-nots has always been a very pressing one. Recall that in the church at Corinth, there was this problem even with the elements of the Supper itself. But this communion is a time of unity and union, not a time for …
In Praise of Leithart
In my first pass on James K.A. Smith’s Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?, I recognized that he did not want to give way to the full-throttled relativism of postmodernism. He said some promising things early in the book, but, as I mentioned, by the end it was clear that his approach was not going to cut …
Acquiring A Taste
Music is very important to our God, and He requires us to come before Him with congregational music. As we do, we want to take care not to insult Him with false assumptions about what He wants. Beware of a false humility: you may believe you do not have a good voice, and in some …
Your Name On A Place Card
In this fallen world, there are ultimately only two tables—the table of the Lord and the table of demons. This being the case, unbelievers will attempt one of two things—they will overtly choose the table of demons in one form or another, or they will attempt to deny that they must make a choice, and …
Catching a Blunder
My thanks to Prosthesis, who caught a significant blunder in my review of Smith’s book on postmodernism below. I quoted Smith summarizing Foucault, and then interacted with that as though it were Smith himself. Mea maxima blunda, and I have corrected the problem. My apologies to all my readers, and particular apologies to Smith for …
Chugging In the Meadow
What does it look like when the Presbyterian locomotive jumps the rails and finds itself chugging valiantly through a meadow? Let a recent statement from Evangel Presbytery (PCA) answer the question. HT: Jeff Meyers Evangel Presbytery declares that the doctrines of the “New Perspective on Paul,” “Auburn Avenue Theology/Federal Vision”, and teachings of Norman Shepherd, …
Worldview Wheel VI
Introduction: Now we come to put everything together as we talking about worldview living. Not surprisingly, the thing to remember is the grace of God—the axle. The Text: “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the …
Greek Branches, Hebrew Roots
“But we have to remember the apostle Paul’s analogy of the olive tree. Jewish branches were cut out of the olive tree because of their unbelief, and Gentile branches were grafted in. This engrafting of the Greeks altered the taste of the olives, but the root remained — an ancient covenant with Abraham, the root …