The Lord has prepared a Table for us, and this Table is like all His other works—beyond marvelous. The Table is set simply—red wine and simple bread. The Lord teaches us that this bread represents His body, broken for us. This wine represents His blood, shed for us. His physical body was broken outside Jerusalem …
Juked by Self-Deception
The Bible teaches that the heart is deceitful above all things. But when the heart lies, who is it that is being lied to? Well, the answer is that the heart has ears as well as a mouth, and the heart tells lies because the heart loves to hear them. Self-deception is a real mystery. …
Rap Tide
There has been a goodish bit of Internet response to this short video. A number of men were asked for their take on Reformed hip hop artists, and their response was overwhelmingly negative. In that negative response, there were some fair points — the cult of perpetual immaturity that cool always tends to foster, the …
Thanksgiving 2013
In a moment I will be going into the kitchen to lift the turkey out of the fridge for Nancy, in the full and certain expectation that she will do the rest. This year we are not celebrating at our house, but will be driving a ham and a supplementary turkey across town to celebrate …
That’ll Preach
In the comments below this post, Jeremy Sexton explains an objective, outside-the-individual way of understanding the qualitative difference between a persevering covenant member and a non-persevering covenant member. I appreciate Jeremy’s contribution. In line with my previous comments, I don’t have any difficulty seeing this as a position that an orthodox Christian could take. The …
Messing With the Verb
I recently wrote about how catholicity begins at home, which you can read here if you missed it. Jim Jordan was kind enough to comment in the thread below that, but because the conveyor belt of time won’t slow down, his comments were kind of buried. I wanted to bump them up to the top …
Why Children Matter (3)
Nurture and Admonition in the 21st Century Introduction Last week we distinguished discipline from punishment. That initial distinction was that discipline is corrective and punishment is concerned with retribution. But once we have accepted the duty of administering parental discipline, we discover that discipline falls naturally into two categories—corrective and formative. The Text: “And, ye …
Honest to God
When we gather for worship, one of the things we do every week is kneel together to confess our sins. But one of the problems with doing something regularly is that you can come to believe that you are doing it. The Word of God tells us that we are to rend our hearts, not …
Finally Getting In
We come to this meal in grateful anticipation of what God has in store for all those who love Him, and who love His appearing. In this meal, God gives us Himself, but He does it by giving us tokens of what shall be. The marriage supper of the Lamb, at the great consummation of …
Preaching in the Stratosphere
“The love of purely abstract reasoning leads many minds astray as to religious truth” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 195).