I have come to a conclusion. I have been in the midst of doctrinal fraci (what’s the plural of fracus?) because I am bilingual. I speak both TR and FV. When I talk with others who are bilingual, we get along famously, and I feel like peace is going to break out across the Reformed …
But I Refuse to Stray
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Now here Your Word is like a lamp That guides my feet in truth. It lights the path before me here, It shows the way through darkest night That I may safely come to You. This oath I took, that I will …
Preparing to Visit
This is an exhortation for both this Lord’s Day and the next. As you know, we rejoice that we have a sister church here in Moscow, Trinity Reformed Church, and we are kept mindful of that fact on a regular basis—we worship together a number of times throughout the year, and it is a great …
That Strength is Here
All homes have places where discipline occurs. As I was growing up, it was the basement. When we were “sent to the basement,” this is where my father would admonish us, discipline us, pray with us afterwards, and graciously invite us to rejoin the fellowship of the family. In other homes, the place varies according …
Dour Chic
“Christians have been criticized for their ‘puritanical’ suspicion of pleasure and beauty. And yet the most flesh-denying ascetic, flagellating himself in a desert cave, and the most furious, tight-lipped Puritan, smashing stained glass windows and pillorying the playwrights, would be hedonistic voluptuaries compared to the existentialists.” [Gene Veith, State of the Arts (Wheaton, IL: Crossway …
The Truth With Dyslexia
“But a lousy education need not be a cheap education. Critics of the government schools know it is not possible to criticize them without hearing the reply that the problem is lack of funding. But this is htrut — the truth with dyslexia. The current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary …
Three More Hamhocks
For those not up to speed, a hamhock is a pig foot. And really cute too.
The Role of Biblical Women
We live in a fallen world in which God works redemptively. This means that nothing can be simply assumed to be in submission to God. It can only be assumed to be in submission to Him, or not. Consequently, we must consider all things as a blessing, or a curse, depending upon its relationship to …
The Legacy of Marcuse
“Nonetheless, on college campuses the drive for speech codes, for double standards in their application, for the mechanisms of indoctrination in their rationales, and for the disciplinary systems to enforce their strictures, comes from the Left” (Kors and Silvergate, The Shadow University, p. 67).
Crazed Secular Puritanism
“Art is whatever an artist does. In a kind of crazed secular Puritanism, contemporary theorists have been seeking to ‘purify’ art, to strip it of its human content and to reduce it to its barest minimum. The consequence has been the dehumanization of art.” [Gene Veith, State of the Arts (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1991), …