“But, of course, the essential quest has been for news. This is the Unholy Grail, the ultimate fantasy on which the whole structure of the media is founded. Shouted down a telephone, tapped out on a teleprinter, carried breathlessly to the stone to catch the edition, beamed by satellite through the stratosphere, whispered confidentially in …
Staying Raveled
“God must be understood to be fully God. Otherwise, everything sound in religion unravels” (For Kirk and Covenant, p. 151).
Crude Oil 2.0
This is not just some fun news. It ought to make us ponder. If we think about this carefully, it ought to make us question many of our assumptions about the world — whether those assumptions are economic, geo-political, environmental, household financial management, or religious. Put in short form, the world does not work the …
Rein In That Renegade
Reading the judgments of God is not something we have to learn how to do in the first place. In the first place, we have to understand what that means and what it does not mean. After that, we must learn to read the judgments of God. It is not the case that we live …
How God Made the World
Holidays can be divided up into three general categories. The first would be holy-days, ecclesiastical holidays. In these, the Church remembers and commemorates the life, death, resurrection, and the continued work of Jesus Christ in them—Christmas, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost. Then we have what we might call civil holidays—like the Fourth of July. And third, …
Efficacy in the Sacrament
The Westminster divines taught us the true foundation of the efficacy of the sacraments, and it is an important and biblical point. The first aspect of this is to note that they taught that the sacraments were efficacious. Their concern was to note why the sacraments were efficacious, not whether they were. They made a …
Daniel and Lydia
The Bible describes our triune God as one who keeps covenant. Not only does He keep covenant, but the Scripture says that He keeps covenant and mercy. In Deuteronomy, this wonderful truth is declared this way: “Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with …
Because the World is a Story
A short time after 9-11 occurred, I had an online debate/discussion with Andrew Sandlin on the question of whether Christians can speak prophetically about the providential meaning of events in our own time. Of particular interest was the question of whether or not we can say that a particular event or disaster was God’s judgment …
A Financial Miscellany
Many other aspects of Proverbs’ teaching on wealth and finances remain, but time does not. A good conclusion to this short series of posts will perhaps be found in an assorted discussion of some of the more important remaining issues. Other than the general relationship to finances, one sustained theme will not necessarily connect these …
Trying to Spin the Curse
The word anathema means cursed or damned. And of course, because God is just, this condemnation does not occur apart from sin — it is the natural and necessary condition that results from sin. Those who plotted against Paul’s life wickedly placed themselves under a great curse (Acts 23:14), vowing that they would eat nothing …