An Ancient Problem
Laced With Poo
As some of you are aware, Refuge Church in Ogden, Utah has a growing voice in our cultural melee (especially on X), and they are aligned with us in many ways. However, much like Revoice attempted to keep the door of flamer sympathy cracked open in the PCA, the leadership in Ogden continues to conduct …
A Chalcedon Christmas
We begin our celebration of Christmas where we ought to begin it, and that is with a child in a manger, visiting angels, followed by the visiting shepherds, and all the other features of the story that we know so well. We begin with the basic facts of the story. But the facts of the …
Like a Little Child
In one sense, all baptisms are infant baptisms. When someone comes to Christ, they are instructed to take in the pure milk of the Word, in a way similar to what a newborn baby does. “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby” (1 Peter 2:2). It is …
The Wise Men and the Nations
Sermon Video Introduction: This part of the Christmas story is not a stand-alone story. In the narrative, we find a type of how all the rulers of this world will eventually come to kiss the Son. ...
Holiday Hiatus
Given the way that Christmas lands this year, I think we should let it interrupt our regular blogging schedule. There will consequently be no posts next Monday or Wednesday, and there will be no Letters posted on Tuesday. Go celebrate with your family. Attend a worship service. Have a cinnamon roll. I will resume the …
As They Always Do, In Fact
“Events kept eventing, as they are wont to do, and after a time there was a significant Jewish population there.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 32
A Timeline for the Ogden/Moscow Controversy
DW received an invitation to speak at the RR conference in Taylor, TX (Feb. 29/Mar. 02, 2024). Because of our general concerns, the elders of Christ Church gave DW permission to go, provided he communicate our concerns to Joel Webbon in a straightforward manner beforehand. Some of the concerns were personal in nature, but one …
Sure, Why Not?
Fact and Meaning
“We need to engage with antisemites over the sheer fact of the Nazi atrocities against the Jews. That genocide and attempt at complete genocide really did happen. But we also must debate the meaning of the Holocaust with the Jews. It does not mean what many Christ-rejecting Jews are claiming it means. If Christ rose from the dead, it cannot mean that.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 25