Just a few random notes on the unfolding debacle in our financial markets. Further bulletins will be forthcoming as events warrant. First, I wonder how much longer it will be before both presidential candidates realize that this is a complete game changer. To watch both sides in this thus far is like seeing the Martians …
Luke and Elizabeth
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, welcome. Let us pray together now, seeking God’s blessing on this joyful event. Our Father in heaven, You are God of all weddings, the Father over all Your children, and the Lover and Giver of life. We pray in the name of Your Son Jesus, …
Medieval Christmas
Here’s a good thing that wants some pushing along. Some friends of this blog are in a band, see? And they did a concert of medieval Christmas music, which of course is always a lot of fun. They have a CD of the music available, as well as a DVD of a concert containing that …
The God of Sex
This link sends you to a program of book recommends that Canon operates. This selection is a book I have mentioned here more than once. Or click on the picture.
Fifth Decade of Psalms/Psalm 50
INTRODUCTION: This is the first of twelve psalms ascribed to Asaph. Mostly likely this is the Asaph who lived at the same time as David (2 Chron. 29:30), although that name does appear later (2 Kings 18:18). This psalm is a wonderful illustration of how thoroughly the godly saints of the old covenant understood true …
Crapitalism
After a while words mean what they usually mean. If everybody misuses a word, and they do so for several centuries, then they have successfully changed the meaning of that word. Words like conservative or capitalist get shanghaied, and there you are, left muttering that you didn’t really want to conserve the Great Society, and …
You Say You Want a Reformation . . .
Frank of Canon Press fame popped into my office just a bit ago to let me know that this little book arrived back from the printers, and did so a bit early. Here is some ad copy from the Canon web page: A Primer on Worship and Reformation proposes that true change begins, not with …
Wealth and Death
As providence would have it, this message on Psalm 49 was preached a week or so after a trillion or so dollars in the U.S. economy just went poof. Some god.
A Millennium of Decline and Hope
Many moderns like to speak of this period in history as the Dark Ages. This terminology, unfortunately, is almost completely misleading, and was popularized by those who hated the Christian faith. Such terms are never neutral. For a counterexample, the Enlightenment was thoroughly humanistic, and must consequently be considered by us as the Endarkenment. From …
Loudly Being Orthodox at All the Irrelevant Places
I have sometimes spoken with Christians who have said something like “we really ought to emphasize the love of God,” and we should not focus on the negative “by pointing out heresy.” All that is necessary is to declare the truth. Why engage with error? Why give it the time of day? The problem with …