INTRODUCTION: This jubilant psalm is not credited to any particular writer, but the tone and content make it likely that it was written in the aftermath of the great victory over Ammon, Moab, and Edom in the reign of Jehoshaphat—the time he sent the choir out in front of the army. THE TEXT: “Great is …
Low Empire
One of the things we have to get straight is the right relationship of the Church to various manifestations of earthly civil government. And in our setting, in our time, we have to come to grips with American hegemony in the world. That fact is a given — how shall we respond to it? One …
As In, Oops
Near the end of his life, the great Augustine published a book called Retractions, in which he corrected earlier mistaken notions of his that had made it into books. Because of his stature as a theologian, that move was obviously necessary. Others, like myself, may be pressed to a similar duty for reasons having more …
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There are lots of roads to drive down as you make your way to get the book.
Wall Street Without Walls
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 153 “He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls” (Prov. 25:28). If we strip away all the legal business entities that we structure and create for ourselves—partnerships, corporations, …
Cheese to Challenge Your Manhood
“Cheese is at once a testament to the Creator’s ingenuity in providing enzymes and bacteria that will do fearful and wonderful things for milk and to man’s audacity in the face of some pretty forbidding stuff. The blander varieties, of course, are hardly more alarming than milk itself; but the farther reaches of the subject …
Sin Alienates
The word apallotrioo refers to alienation. In conjunction with another word, it is rendered as “be alienated,” and by itself as “be alien. All of the scriptural uses are in Paul, and he uses to describe the condition of those who are strangers to God. “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your …
Sermons, Not Essays
“Do you not think that many sermons are ‘prepared’ until the juice is crushed out of them, and zeal could not remain in such dry husks? . . . You will never get a crop if you plant boiled potates. You can boil a sermon to a turn, so that no life remaineth in it …
Plot Dragging a Little? Add Explosions!
“However, we find in drama today, and for my purpose specifically in film, two significant changes that were somewhat rare in our culture fifty years ago. First, the ethics of the hero’s action is now morally relativistic. And second, spectacle, or what Aristotle called ‘scenic effects,’ has upstaged all other dramatic elements” (Arthur Hunt, The …
What Balance Means
Balance is very difficult for us as Christians to maintain. But balance in worship, balance in doctrine, balance in good deeds, and balance in individual practice, are nevertheless required. At the same time, balance is to be defined according to the Word, and not according to the moderate nervousness the world has about religious things. …