One night, after having consumed far too much pizza, an old school Presbyterian minister retired to bed. About two in the morning, after much turning and spindling up in the covers, he awoke in a sweat, and there, hovering over the foot of his bed, in a nimbus cloud of glory, was the Westminster Confession, …
Reformation and our Children
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” (Mal. 4:5-6). One of …
The Corruption of Medicine
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 15 If the basic assumptions underlying what has come to be called “conventional” medicine are biblical in their origins, then how are we to account for the large numbers of conservative Christians who have turned their back on this form …
Heresy Stew
Having become a heretic in the broader Reformed world, I am sometimes asked how I did it. What is the recipe? How might a young man who wants to cook up something similar go about the business? Here is the good news. You probably have the ingredients in your library . . . kitchen . …
Pleasures Forevermore/Psalm 16
This psalm is a plea for deliverance, but at the same time it is suffused with great confidence and hope. As a prayer offered on behalf of the Lord Jesus, we should not be surprised at the weight of glory contained here. “Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust . …
Prayer for Reformation
Our Father and God, our idols have failed us. We have sacrificed our children to the demons of personal choice, and we now see that the Molech of modernity devours, just as his ancient father would do. The land is polluted with blood, with the blood of innocents. But You are the righteous one. Father, …
The Lord’s Supper and Priestcraft
As we develop a right approach to the Supper, which includes a weekly approach to the Supper, we have to be careful to avoid distractions. One such distraction is the charge that this “high view” of the Supper is somehow incipiently Roman Catholic. In considering a historical debate as we come to the Supper is …
On Earth, In Heaven
The Holy Spirit dwells in the Temple of the living God, and you, considered together, are that Temple. Individually, you have responsibilities, each of you, as a living stone, but in the public worship of God, when we are gathered together like this in the congregation, we are the Temple of God. This means you …
The Only God
We have to remember that the first four of the Ten Commandments are summarized by the greatest commandment to love God, while the last six are summarized by the commandment to love our neighbor. We should also keep in mind that the law of God is not a series of different panes of glass — …
Inherit the Earth
These are familiar words. As familiar words, they have much in common with other well-traveled passages. One common feature is the fact that the promise is not well-understood. The word to us is very clear — “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.“ A blessing is pronounced upon a certain kind of …