“‘Some ministers,’ says an old homiletist, ‘do with their texts, as the Levite with his concubine, — cut, and carve it into so many several pieces'” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 188).
Eighth Decade of Psalms: Psalm 75
Introduction: This is a psalm of preemptive thanksgiving. The psalmist is looking to God for a deliverance that he fully expects. There are petitions mixed in with the psalm, but for the most part this is simply anticipatory gladness for deliverance. The deliverance sought is from wicked rulers, which makes the faith all the more …
Toddlers Out of Temper
We have been addressing the theme of self-government, and considering that as the foundation of every other form of lawful and limited government. A nation of slaves to sin and vice can never be a free people. They are far too easily threatened, manipulated, seduced, and bribed. They will trade away the most precious liberties …
Much of Our Littles
The reason it is possible for God to pronounce the glorious vindication of “no condemnation” over us is because the imputation of the perfect obedience of Jesus Christ to us. This is our justification, this is our exoneration, this is our judicial deliverance. The Lord is our righteousness. But when we move from the subject …
A Guest Gospel Post
My name is Jim Wilson. I am 88 years old, pastor of Word of Life Church in Moscow. I am Douglas Wilson’s father. I am not a regular reader of what goes on in this blog. It would take up too much of my time. However, I have a few things I would like to …
Just Like That
“We too often listen to sermons which remind us of that Galatian church which began in the spirit, but ended in the flesh” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 182).
A Fifty Gallon Drum of Lame Sauce
So here would be a brief series of snapshots showing what happens to a denomination after you kick Machen out of it. Now by sharing this video I do not want to indicate that I have watched this entire thing, for there are some duties that we tend to shrink away from, like Aragorn contemplating …
Triune Botherations
Introduction: I feel like the guy right before Pickett’s charge who thought he could make peace by walking between the armies in a gray coat and blue trousers. So wish me luck everybody. As many of you know, a controversy with two layers erupted within the last month, having to do with Trinitarian theology and …
With His Whole Weight
“The text is or should be, the keynote to the whole sermon. The more bold, the more undoubted and undisputed, its tone, the better . . . Nothing remains then, but for the preacher to go out upon it, with his whole weight; to unfold and apply its evident undoubted meaning, with all the moral …
Jed and Sophie
One of the things we know about God from Scripture is that He is the consummate matchmaker. He created the very idea of matches in the Garden when He established marriage. He gave life to Adam, and then gave a wife to Adam. He made the whole enterprise possible, in other words. And the Lord …