Ascension Sunday 2009 This Lord’s Day is Ascension Sunday, the day we have set apart to commemorate the exaltation of Jesus Christ to the right hand of the Ancient of Days. This was the day upon which He was given universal and complete authority over all nations and kings, when He was given all rule …
Growing Up Around Us
As we seek to grow and mature in our understanding of music, and we learn more about the kind of music that best glorifies God in worship, we have to be careful to balance certain things. The first thing is that we have to recognize where we are—we are living in a time when general …
Food in the Ark
When the Lord gave food to Adam, He gave him the world as food. Only one tree was off limits, and every other tree in the garden, and from there to the world, was given into his hand. But after the arrival of sin, and the great judgment on sin that we call the flood, …
An Apostate Nation
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, we live as Christians in an apostate nation, a nation …
Secret Sin
As we bring up the subject of secret or hidden sin, a few preliminary cautions are in order. We are not concerned with sins that might have been committed by somebody else but weren’t. Nor is this about sins confessed and forgiven. This is not a post put up to stumble the introspective. The sole …
Why Preachers Avoid the Second Person Plural
“For all its talk about honesty, our culture has refined the art of indirection and euphemism in an attempt not to have to say directly what we really mean . . . When things get tense, you put a little verbal distance between yourself and the congregation. The real problem, however, is that in doing …
Destruo Ergo Sum
“There is one other romantic attraction of opiates: and that is to the antinomian turn of mind. This turn of mind has become much more common with the general rise of self-importance, which is a corollary of democracy: and in an age of celebrity, everyone feels obliged to leave his mark on the world, or …
Remaining Sin
Book 3/Chapter 3 Believers still sinners (section 10) 1. In this life, do we receive entire freedom from sin? 2. What remains within every believer? 3. Where does Calvin differ with Augustine on this point? Remaining, not reigning (section 11) 1. What is the believer’s relation to sin? 2. Do we have to worry about …
Lifelong Regeneration
Book 3/Chapter 3 Faith and repentance (section 5) 1. What is the relationship of faith and repentance? 2. What does Calvin draw from the Hebrew and Greek meanings of their words for repentance? Repentance defined (section 6) 1. What is the first of three heads in Calvin’s understanding of repentance? Earnest fear (section 7) 1. …
At Seven Pip Emma
For those here in the Moscow area, tomorrow night there will be a great family concert with Jamie Soles at the Nuart. Click the pic for more info about Jamie.