We are created and shaped in the image of God, and we are the crowning glory of matter. Our first father Adam was fashioned out of the earth, and when we die, we return to that earth. For a time, matter is organized in such a way as to love, think, sing praises to God, …
No Handles
“‘This is a a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church’ (Eph. 5:31-32). Those who want the formation of this great mystery to be reeduced to a simple checkoff list want something that cannot be. For those who have no hands, wisdom has no handles” (Future Men, p. 147).
Yet Another Sabbath
Our Father and God, we thank You now for all the kindness You have shown to us in bringing us to yet another Sabbath day. The food before us is wonderful, the hands that prepared it are blessed, the wine is rich. We are so grateful that You have brought us into the salvation that …
Naming the Intoleristas
My wife is a lovely Puritan, and a great advocate of lifting God’s Word back to Him as we continue to deal with the goose-stepping forces for tolerance and storm troopers of enforced diversity. She was reading in Isaiah yesterday, and noted a few phrases that delighted us. About idolaters, Isaiah said, “They are their …
Headed South Again
Dr. Tracy McKenzie is a professor of history at the University of Washington, and he was the one who first identified the citation problems with the original edition of Southern Slavery As It Was. In the most recent edition of World magazine, he wrote the editor with two basic points. His first point was that …
When Push Comes to Shove
At the end of April I appeared before the Latah County Commissioners to register my concerns about the discriminatory harassment that is being directed at our ministries. The tax-exemption complaints that have been filed against Anselm House, New St. Andrews, Logos School, and Community Christian ministries were complaints that, if consistently applied to others in …
Marriage as Manifest Glory XXI
INTRODUCTION: The central command given to husbands as husbands in the New Testament is the command to love. The central command given to wives as wives is the command to honor and respect. We will consider the first in detail this week, and the second next week. THE TEXTS: For the husband is the head …
A Protestant Vision for Unity
Dear Joel, What I would like to do in this letter is sketch a Protestant vision for the unity of the Church. It is important to emphasize from the start that I am not addressed how unified the Church ought to be, but rather how unified the Church will be. The vexed question of church …
How Many?
“Unless wisdom governs, words are like proverbs in the mouth of a fool — like the legs of a crippled man (Prov. 26:7). So it doesn’t matter if it is called courtship, biblical courtship, or covenantal dating. What matters is more intangible. Unless wisdom governs, as I am fond of saying, courtship means that six …
Lower Half of the Class
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 48 My father-in-law likes to joke that fifty percent of all doctors graduated in the lower half of their class at med school. And if there were a school that all businessmen and retail merchants had to graduate from, then …