Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Gracious Father, Giver of all gifts, we thank You for the gift of Your most Holy Spirit. We thank You that in Your triune life there is no conflict between power and love. We know that in our flesh, we feel like …
The Center of the World
This is the day of Pentecost, in the year of our Lord 2007. We rejoice in this day, and we mark it, and we call upon our God to continue the work in His Church which He so wonderfully began in the second chapter of Acts. Over the course of time, the word Pentecost has …
Insecure Kings and Priests
Why do we sit as we partake of the Lord’s Table? What is the point of that? Might it not seem disrespectful, as though we were taking this too casually? Wouldn’t it be more respectful to kneel, or come to the front of the church and kneel? No, we don’t believe so. There is an …
Enthralled
A number of our projects have sort of met at the intersection, and so over the last few weeks I have had a lot to announce. We are very grateful to God. The latest announcement, and one that we are really excited about, is a series of Bible stories for young children. They are published …
Keith and Nellie
In Psalm 45, the psalmist declares that he will write down a good thing. Scripture tells us that he who finds a wife finds a good thing, and in this passage of Scripture we find that marriage itself, marriage generally, is considered a good thing. But too often conservative Christians have assumed that a good …
Fifth Installment of the Hitchens/Wilson Debate
Christianity Today has now posted the fifth exchange between Christopher Hitchens and me. This is the penultimate round, with the final round going up next week. You can find it here.
Does Your Marriage Need Help?
This is pretty funny, and outlandish, but I bet that any pastor or marriage counselor has a comparable story from real life. So consider this a plug for the 4th Annual Conference on the Family hosted by Providence Church (CREC) in Lynchburg, VA. The date is June 16, 2007. Nancy and I will be speaking …
The Hebraic Mind
Careful students of church history see far more in it than names and dates, battles and councils, popes and reformers. The history of the church is very much a history of ideas. But in order to talk about the course and influence of these ideas, we have to talk about the various schools of philosophy …
When Remarriage is Theft
The conclusion of Moses’ exposition of the prohibition of theft may strike modern ears somewhat oddly. But understanding the laws in this context brings additional light to the question. “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath …
Pornostan
“What do you call a jurisdiction split between post-Christian secular gay potheads and anti-whoring anti-sodomite anti-everything-you-dig Islamists? If Kurdistan’s an awkward fit in Iraq, how well does Pornostan fit in the Islamic Republic of Holland?” (Mark Steyn, America Alone, p. 120).