The whole earth is full of God’s glory. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness of it. Everything that exists was created by Him, and so it is that everything declares the weight of His glory. No matter how small—whether a tiny rock flower, or a sub-atomic particle, or a grain of sand—every discrete …
Sam and Grace
In the course of His ministry on earth, the Lord Jesus taught us that we were to learn how to accept kingdom disruptions. We are supposed to learn how to rejoice at the arrival of kingdom inversions. Jesus taught that the way to become great in the kingdom was by becoming least in the kingdom. …
Hard Providence and Trusting God
Introduction We live in a world where rough things happen. Despite all our advances in technology, everyone in this room will still die. We still get sick. We still have financial challenges. We have the heartbreak of wayward children. We still have to deal with the perversity of sin that we can still find stirring …
The Backdrop of Resurrection
This meal commemorates the death of Jesus Christ. This bread represents His body, and this wine represents His blood. This Table is all about the crucifixion. The cross is what we are talking about. The affliction He went through on our behalf is the message. But we have to presuppose the resurrection in order to …
Open Carry & Worship
We have noted that a church building is architectural speech. But in order to speak truly as a church, it needs to speak gospel. Made out of brick, and steel, and wood, and so forth, the architectural vocabulary is limited when it comes to doctrines like propitiation, substitutionary atonement, and so on. The task with …
Cascading Copiousness
“While diffuseness is unfavorable to energy, there may be a profuseness . . . which is highly energetic. The former spreads sluggishly over a wide expanse, the latter pours onward in a rushing torrent” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 372).
Forgetting the Columns
The next chapter is on the problem of evil, and in the course of it Wright says something that is particularly fine. Since there are a lot of other problems, to be dealt with in due course, I wanted to begin with the praise. “The Gospels tell this story in order to say that the …
In Which N.T. Wright Discovers the Moon Again
The next chapter from Wright is on eschatology and care for the creation, and is a mixed bag. The title of the chapter is “Jesus is Coming — Plant a Tree.” We will come back to that shortly. I want to begin by acknowledging what is very good about this chapter, which is Wright’s exegetical …
Rise Above Offense
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #156 Charity “doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil” (1 Cor. 13:5). We are taking care to work slowly through Paul’s description of what love is like. We have noted …
The Elton John Version
Wright’s chapter on the case for ordaining women starts off a little oddly. He acknowledges that he used to teach that “the creation of man and woman in their two genders is a vital part of what it meant that humans are created in God’s image. I now regard that as a mistake” (p. 64). …