There is a view afoot, I am afraid, that holds that when Paul says law he is always referring to the Torah. The works of the law, therefore, are those works that maintain the covenant boundary markers, which were given by grace. The works of the law understood in this way are part of the …
Instruments in Worship
In Ephesians 5, the apostle Paul requires musical instrumentation in worship. He says there that we are to be “speaking to [one another] in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in [our] heart to the Lord” (Eph. 5:19). The translation in the heart would better be rendered as with the heart. …
Breaking Bread, Breaking Sin
This bread is the sacrament of the body of the Lord, as He put it. And when He picked it up in the institution of this meal, He took the bread that represented His own body, and He gave thanks, and He broke it. The remarkable grace and love that we see here is striking, …
Receiving Grace
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father and God, You are the God of all grace, and …
Night Shift at the Flying J
So let’s talk about nose rings for a minute. In our recent discussion of tattoos, the nose ring question developed into a significant sideshow, and so a few specific words should be addressed in this direction as well. The first thing to point out (and which I have pointed out elsewhere) is that nose rings …
Calvin on Bishops
Book 4/Chapter 5 Benefices (section 6) 1. What stipend or living used to be connected to ordination? 2. Under the papacy, how are most benefices secured? Monstrous abuses (section 7) 1. What kind of man is give rule in five or six churches? 2. Why is it useless to cite the Word against these people? …
Buncha Fun
HT: Randy Booth
No Relation Calm Down
When Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” to the president, we all discovered how little some folks like it when somebody speaks truth to power. And generally the folks that don’t like it are the ones who use phrases like “speaking truth to power.” Anyhow, I now read that Wilson, no relation calm down, has raised …
Spitting Sixteen Penny Nails
An evangelical newspaper in the UK has printed an excerpt from a book entitled Risking the Truth in which Ligon Duncan says some creative things. I am quoting the section that deals with me by name, and my commentary is interspersed. “Douglas Wilson of Moscow, Idaho (perhaps the best-known advocate of the FV), highlights the …
911
It has been eight years since the horrific attack on the World Trade Towers. If all you had to go on was our typical left/right tangled discussions of the event, you would conclude either that Obama struck the right note on his international apology tour, assuming in the background of his speech that America somehow …