We only have a week before Trinity Fest begins, and we have an important announcement connected with this. Before getting to that, let me encourage those who have not yet registered to go ahead and do so, and to come. This whole event gets more interesting every day. And that leads me to the announcement. …
Water Still Runs Downhill
There have been no postings here for the last week or so because I was off to a family reunion (where we had a wonderful time). We were just outside of Zion National Park in southern Utah, a place of stark and majestic grandeur. At night the sky was so full of stars you could …
Returned Glory
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Father of all, we praise Your mercy for bringing us here yet again. We thank You for all that You are doing, and have done, on behalf of us, Your people. We are called by Your name, and we would ask for …
God in Battles
The Lord Jesus taught us to be confident in God when He said that not a sparrow falls to the ground apart from the will of the Father. God’s sovereignty is not concerned with generalities—for example, He does not look at a battle from a middle distance, determining only the large issues, such as which …
Fighting With the Supper, Not Over It
As we noted last week, there is another complaint that has been brought against us—in our observance of the Lord’s Supper, we serve alcohol to minors. There are many principles involved in all this, but we need to focus on just one of them right now, and bring this wisdom with us as we come …
Hot Providence
Below is a small piece I wrote for a Christ Church cookbook which, Lord wiling, will be out in the near future. Maybe by Trinity Fest. The name of the cookbook will be Hot Providence, and so stay tuned. In this short essay I advance the culinary argument for God’s existence, which Thomas Acquinas somehow …
Infinite Humility
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Father of all mercy, and God of all comfort, we praise You as the God who does not neglect us in our sorrows and troubles. We know that false gods pretend to be above the daily concerns of tiny creatures such as …
And the Walls Come Down
Religious claims, by their very nature, are total. Whenever someone advances a religious claim that is partial, they are not disproving this claim, but rather demonstrating that they are dishonest or confused. If they are dishonest, they recognize that their religious claims really are total, but also that those people who are not adherents are …
Jesus Gives Alcohol to Minors
As many of You are aware, some of our local adversaries have officially complained about the worship service we will be having at the Kibbie Dome just before the Trinity Festival. Their complaint centers on the fact that we will be serving alcohol to minors. For some years, we have been teaching you that our …
Holy Warfare
Worship is warfare. Throughout the Bible we learn the lesson that when the people of God worship rightly, their enemies give way before them. When they worship according to their own wisdom, they are prevailed against. Look around, and consider the condition of the church today. Nothing is more apparent than the fact that we …