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Reformation Sunday 2004

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INTRODUCTION: We are fast approaching the five hundredth anniversary of the glorious Reformation. The history of the Church is always tangled, and we can never approach it in a simplistic fashion. But with all such allowances made, the Reformation was a great work of the Holy … [Read more...]

Gladness for Sackcloth/Psalm 30

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Introduction: In this psalm we find another inspiring pattern for prayer—and it is the kind of prayer that can be offered up by a sinner. David offers up a petition here, and the need for the petition was created by his own spiritual carelessness. But we serve and worship a … [Read more...]

A Shepherd Lord/Psalm 23

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This passage is one of the most famous of all scriptural passages, and rightly so. The only real problem with it is that people are so familiar with it that it is easy to assume too readily that you have grasped the full import of what is being said. But this psalm also has … [Read more...]

Eventful Doings

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I haven't posted for last several days because I have been at the presbytery meeting for the CRE, which, among other things, changed its name to the CREC (Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches). Presbytery was a time of warm fellowship, and was truly a blessed time. Our … [Read more...]

Christus Victor/Psalm 22

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This psalm contains one of the great Old Testament portrayals of the Gospel. Along with Isaiah 53, we learn here that the death of Christ for the sins of the world was no afterthought. The Lamb of God was indeed slain from before the foundations of the world. "My God, my God, why … [Read more...]