Mark Horne has posted a quotation from Calvin on Deuteronomy. I reproduce the quote below, but the comments on Mark’s blog are worth reading also. For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than …
You Have Touched the Thing with a Needle
I would like to pass on to all of you some questions posed by a correspondent in Australia. He has been observing us toiling away here in our FV swamps, and sent on some questions that I thought were just grand, going right to the heart of the matter. If I were speaking to this …
Worship Is Political
The modern world specializes in fragmentation. Everything is broken apart into little bits, so that autonomous man might have the illusion that this world can be controlled by man, piece by little piece. But we are Christians, who serve the God who made heaven and earth, and who then remade them in Jesus Christ our …
And God Will Send His Blessings Down
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Everyone who fears the Lord is blessed, All who walk in the ways assigned. Your meals will be the work of your hands, Happiness weighs your table down, And it will all be well with all your house. Your wife will be …
No Dessert for You
Once there was a young couple whose first child was approaching school age, and they had begun to talk seriously about what they were going to do. The problem was acute for them because they both came from families that had a lot of public school teachers in them. These were Christian people, but public …
Oh
Well, I have listened to an interview with Guy Waters on the Federal Vision (HT: Mark Horne). In a nutshell, I agree with Mark’s response here. How is it possible for the same teaching to create false assurance and no assurance? How is our preaching and teaching putting them to complacent sleep in their covenantal …
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The Leaven of Joy
We now come to the conclusion of the Mosaic exposition on the fourth commandment. We see that the sabbath principle runs throughout the year, and is not limited to a weekly cycle. And of course we see the fulfillment of these festivals is found in Christ. “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover …
Unity and Conflict
The unity of the faith is dependent upon unity of faith. While we have an objective unity with all who share one Lord, one faith, one baptism, Paul does on to say that there is another unity that we must grow up into. There is a unity we must preserve, and there is a unity …
Mr. Sandeman, Bring Me a Dream
Here is a short audio snippet from John Piper’s talk on Fuller. This is the section where he references my recent discussion with Scott Clark on Heidelblog. I think Piper is exactly right about the relevance of this discussion. As he points out, the handles are in slightly different places than they were in the …
By the Root
James tells us the source of quarreling and wars. He says, authoritatively, that people fight and quarrel because of their covetousness. Covetousness, in its turn, a violation of the tenth commandment, is the opposite of contentment. When you are weeding in a garden, it is not enough to simply clip the weed so that it …