It turns out that the folks at Little Geneva don’t like the fact that I tell redneck jokes. And as a result of me acquiring this information, here are a couple more! What do a tornado and a redneck divorce have in common? I dunno, what? In both cases, somebody loses a mobile home! And …
Learning to Detest Hypocrisy
During a portion of the sermon this last Sunday, I spent a little bit of time on the problem of lowlife authenticity. After the message I had a good conversation with a good friend over my professed bafflement over what causes the attraction to this lowlife ethos. He made the point that the cause of …
Like You Were There
For a number of years, I have had the privilege of speaking on education reform to various groups of parents around the country. During that time, I have often wished that there was a good way for me to illustrate for these parents what school children are really capable of, and what remarkable things they …
Marriage As Manifest Glory XXXVII
Introduction What does it mean to be pro-marriage or pro-family, or pro-life? In common parlance, we know what such phrases refer to but even here we must be careful. The basic Christian duty is to be pro-God, and align everything else in accordance with this. When we absolutize things like “life,” “marriage,” or “family,” we …
Marriage As Manifest Glory XXXVI
INTRODUCTION: So we are now considering the question of respect, submission and authority. We have looked at love, sacrifice and authority with regard to husbands, and now we need to reflect on the other side of the coin. Remember that authority in the Christian framework is a Trinitarian thing. Authority gladly surrendered is the foundation …
Good Old Justus
In one sense, postmodernism is far worse than a particular heresy, because at least the old heretics made truth claims. The kind of universal corrosive that postmodernism brings with it affects everything, including the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It rots out lies as well as the truth; but since a lie is a perverse tribute to the …
God Among the Gods
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! You, O God, stand up in the great congregation, You stand among the mighty ones, And judge the gods themselves. You chide them— “How long will you rule unjustly? How long will you accept wasters into your councils? Think for a moment. …
Worship of the Undefined
We are coming into the presence of our triune God, and we do so in order to worship Him. We are coming to worship Him, and we have not come here to define Him. The Latin word for boundary, or limit, is finis. And so when we define something, we set the boundaries of it. …
God the Killjoy
Many of our liturgical practices and beliefs rest upon a slander of God’s character. We say things about Him that are certainly true in the abstract, but in context they are completely out of whack. For example, in the course of Israel’s religious calendar, God appointed for them one fast day, the Day of Atonement. …
Velveeta Evidence
The president of the University of Idaho has, in a maladroit attempt to avoid controversy, created a controversy. He put out a statement the other day that in the scientific departments of the university, the teaching of Intelligent Design was verboten-idea-kind-of-thing. Science is based on evidence, he said, and then issued a decree from on …