Psalm 149: Sermon Video Introduction: In Scripture, praise and true authority always go hand in hand. This is because it is faith that overcomes the world (1 John 5:4), and praise always overflows ...
Songs of Triumph
The St. Andrews Seven
Introduction: So this is a talk about the impact a small group of Scots had on the nation of India. This is, as I take it, a subset of a larger story. The Scots were, in effect, the last European ...
From Absolutely Nothing
Before the creative Word was spoken, no thing was. Before the void was filled, or even existed to be filled, there was God the Speaker, God the Spoken, and God the Interpreter, and they had not yet brought the heavens and earth into being. But when they did, the spheres and stars and waters and …
Praise That Plunges
Psalm 148: Sermon Video Introduction: This is a psalm of praise in action. It begins in the highest heaven, and descends to the deeps, and invites everyone and everything in between to join ...
God of the High and Low
Psalm 147: Sermon Video Introduction: On the one hand, we know that God is far above us, higher than the highest heaven. But we must also confess that He is beneath our feet, supporting us ...
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
Psalm 146: Sermon Video Introduction: On the one hand, people have every reason to not put their trust in princes. The princes let them down over and over, again and again. You would think ...
What the Righteous Love to Talk About
Psalm 145: Sermon Video Introduction: The nature and character of God is of course worthy of all praise and adoration. But we are finite, and sinful on top of that, and so we cannot even begin ...
The Great Gospel-Centered Crack-Up
Introduction: Yesterday I was discussing with some friends the nature of the Reformed collapse in the face of all our crazytoon times. Reformed guys are supposed to be the heady ones, the keepers of the Big Thinks, and they went down before the most transparent lies—they went down like dry August grass before a freshly …
Audio Reading of Post
The Trap of Donatism Lite
Introduction: As the aftermath of the great evangelical leadership meltdown continues apace, we find ourselves in the midst of a very interesting discussion. What do we do about evangelical leaders who flaked, evangelical leaders who wobbled, and evangelical leaders who stood firm—now that some of the smoke has cleared, and some who wobbled are starting …
Josiah and Noelle
The Scripture plainly teaches that woman is the glory of man, and in a similar way, so also one of the glories of the Christian faith has been the way in which we have embraced this truth, and established it as one of our glories. It is a simple historical fact that as the Christian …