“Most viewers simply feel captured by a film like Death Wish or The Shootist. They are not aware of being ritually instructed, because myths derive from and appeal to the unconscious rather than the conscious mind. Although the process within an individual may be largely unconscious, the mythical paradigms of his culture have already been …
So It’s Division You Want?
Speaking of Matt. 24:49-51: “That evil servant who began to smite his fellow servants provoked his lord against him so as to come upon him with such severity as to cut him asunder and to appoint his portion with the hypocrites. He will ‘dichotomize’ him, divide him in two. He, by smiting his fellow servants, …
Christ the Lord of the Table
Christ as Lord of the Table refers of course to the Lord’s Table, even though most of what we will consider does not connect to the Lord’s Supper directly. But, as we shall see, our life together always connects to this Table, and indirect connections are not unimportant connections. This is beause we are to …
More on Speech
The apostle Paul took a dim view of dirty talk. In Colossians 3:8 he uses the word aischrologia to prohibit filthy communication. In our previous discussion of this (on Eph. 5:4), we noted that we need to take our directions on this from the robust apostles and not from the prim Victorians. Now where might …
Some Important News
Yesterday the congregation of Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church voted (without dissent) to leave the PCA. They also voted to have Steve Wilkins continue as their pastor, and to approach the CREC for membership. They have been adopted as a mission church of Grace Covenant Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, pastored by Randy Booth. Steve was a …
So Really Feed Them
“Churches are not to be held together except by an instructive ministry; a mere filling up of time with oratory will not suffice. Everywhere men ask to be fed, really fed” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 140).
And Serves Him Right
“Beginning in 1868, Martha Farquarson developed the female redeemer figure in the Elsie Dinsmore series: Elsie was a pious heroine who redeemed others by bursting into tears at hardness of heart. She brought her irreligious father to repentance by fainting at the piano when he tried to force her to play secular music on Sunday” …
What We Need Around Here Is A Jet Boat
Here is where we are. American Christians who care about the lordship of Christ in the political realm are in the following position. The Democrats, because of their pro-abort, anti-life, anti-fruitfulness stands, are out. The Hillarybot is simply an ambition machine with a pro-death agenda. Obama seems like a normal human being, but his policy …
The Game Show’s Brand New Season
There is a dust-up in progress at Westminster Seminary East. There are three basic issues involved, and I happen to be in a position to speak to two of them. The first would be the speaking habits of Westminster president Peter Lillback, the second would be reaction to Peter Enns’ book Inspiration and Incarnation, and …
Stealing Ones and Zeroes
Once there was a pastor who preached a sermon on restitution and inexplicably left out any reference to electronic stealing—downloading music illegally, copying software, and all that. He was asked various questions about this after the message, and as a result he learned his lesson, and will never do that again. There’s the story part …