I have recently been doing some thinking on Psalm 115. In the eighth verse, the psalmist tells us that men become like the idols they worship. And since he has already explained that all idols–whether formed by the hands or forged in cracked brains–are blind, deaf, dumb and lame, the men who worship them assume …
Scripture and Cell Phone Coverage
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16:11) Growing Dominion, Part 10 The Lord Jesus resisted temptation by quoting from the book of Deuteronomy. One of the things he quoted was the famous passage on not living by bread alone. But the passage says more than what we do not live on. …
Support the Gideons
As the previous post put it, I was out of town for a bit. While there, I discovered through various communications back to Moscow, that, contrary to all my naive assumptions, Lewis Carroll is not dead. But I just got in last night, and wanted to refrain from commenting on anything until I saw the …
Gone For a While, Back in a Bit
Heading out of town for a week or thereabouts, and I don’t know if I will have Internet access there. If I do, I will post as I can, but I am afraid that my pick-up and CD player are staying right here in Idaho. Therefore, I will not be yelling at my windshield for …
The Plow of God
God plows his people. He deals with us, and He deals with us here in the Supper. He deals with sin in the Supper. This is very different from us trying to deal with sin on our own before we come, in order to make ourselves worthy. That misses the point, almost entirely. You do …
Fourth of July
Several centuries ago, a people were oppressed by a wicked tyrant, and when they called upon the triune God, He heard their cry, and He delivered them. The tyranny they fought was the greatest military power on the face of the earth at that time, and yet they prevailed. The tales of that war were …
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Tension
You lift up kings and throw them down. At Your Word, congresses and parliaments are tumbled into confusion and the babble of tongues, pundits, and 24 hour news coverage. You throw the ocean against the shore, And sometimes that shore is inhabited. Mothers cry and children are lost. Their surviving men curse the God in …
Yelling At My Windshield, Part 12
Dr. Hywel Jones begins his lecture by noting that in the weeks and months to come, some of us on the other side will “cry foul.” And that is precisely what I have been doing in these posts — crying foul. Dr. Jones goes on to say that when someone is struck under the fifth …
Yelling At My Windshield, Part 11
Finishing up Dr. Godfrey’s tape, I realized that it was not until the last couple minutes that I encountered any doctrinal or theological disagreement. Of course, he was wrong about the Federal Vision throughout, but his treatment of Paul and Calvin was admirable. Would that he handled what we have written with the same care. …
Contrasts and Parallels
The various turmoils in the wilderness which the Jews experienced were all recorded, and they were recorded, Paul says, as examples for the new covenant believers at Corinth. Because of this, the one who assumes that he stands, needs to take heed lest he fall. The modern evangelical world likes to draw contrasts between the …