Yesterday, I finished up a short, four-part series of sermons on loving little kids. You can find the last one here.
Like A Really Bad Bloody Nose
Fun things are happening on the 100 Cupboards front. “There are some scary moments in this story, which is the first book in a new fantasy adventure series. There also is humor and some lessons about love and bravery. The ending leaves many questions unanswered (for Volume 2, no doubt), all but guaranteeing that this …
Dealing With Towering Germans
I just recently got my copy of Engaging With Barth, and read the contribution by David Gibson (on Barth’s doctrine of election). This volume looks like a fantastic resource for pastors, a resource that is very much needed. For various reasons, Barth has not really gone away and it is important for evangelicals to work …
The Learned Wooliness of Archbishops
In Matthew Henry’s Method for Prayer, he says this: “For our own land and nation, the happy islands of Great Britain and Ireland, which we ought in a special manner to see the welfare of, that in the peace thereof we may have peace . . . Lord, thou hast dealt favourably with our land; …
This Will Happen to Us Too
I was reading this morning in Luther’s Table Talk, and came across an insight that is more than a little relevant to some of our confessional and dogmatic controversies. When someone had proposed the collected works of Luther, he said this (the emphasis is mine): “I’d like all my books to be destroyed so that …
Wishing for a Doritos Commerical
Once a father and son were watching the news together, and since it was political season—a primary was looming in their state—not only was the news crammed full of information about the candidates, so also half the commercials were paid political ads, crammed full of lack of information about the candidates. Staring glumly at the …
Perpetual Remembrance
When it comes to marked events, there are two ways to remember them. One is to avoid forgetting, and the other is to enact what you have never forgotten. We mistake when we think that the first kind of remembrance is the only kind there is. But when the Bible says that the Lord remembered …
Color Me Random
I recently came across a few songs that I really like, and thought I should mention it. First, I recently got the album that Robert Plant and Alison Krauss put out together (didn’t see that one coming), and a couple songs there were first rate. Check out Killing the Blues and Gone, Gone, Gone. On …
Fruitful and Unfruitful
One of the images that Scripture gives of a life of sin is that of fruitlessness, as represented by the word akarpos. The seed that is planted among the thorns, those thorns being the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches, is choked out and becomes unfruitful (Matt. 13:22). Jesus uses the same …
For Our Friends in Seattle
We have a lot of friends in the Seattle area, and this is to remind you all that Nate is finishing up his 100 Cupboards book tour there. There will be a reading/signing tonight, February 29, at 6:30 P.M. at Borders Books at 16549 NE 74th Street in Redmond, WA. Tomorrow on March 1 there will be …