At the first Supper, the Lord delivered a new commandment to His disciples – which was that they were love one another the same way He has loved them. He said further that this would be the mark by which they would be identified as His, by their love for one another, a love that …
The Weight of the Fruit, Not the Weight of the Tree
This call to worship is addressed to the children and young people who are privileged to grow up in the midst of the covenant, to those who are in covenant with the God of their parents. God calls us to this, and so we rejoice in it. At the same time, always be wary of …
Ascension Sunday 2006
Introduction: One of the great difficulties that modern Christians have is that we do not let the two testament inform one another. Because of this neglect on our part, we miss many visions of coming glory that the Old Testament prophets set before us. The Text: I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one …
Oh. That Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick.
“Increasingly, second- and third-tier schools are rushing to embrace all manner of fashionable intellectual ideologies as so many formulas for garnering prestige, publicity, and ‘name’ professors (and hoping thereby to attract more students and other sources of income) without having to distinguish themselves through the less-glamorous and more time-consuming methods of good teaching and lasting …
Funny. The Post-Enlightenment Is Demanding All the Same Stuff.
“The Enlightenment’s centerpiece was freedom. Indeed, its demand was freedom: freedom from the past, freedom from God, and freedom from authority” [David Wells, Above All Earthly Pow’rs (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005), p. 29].
Food Stamps for the Brain
“But if the government adopts responsibilities that God never assigned and begins massive redistributions of wealth accordingly, this creates an ethical problem. King Ahab stole Naboth’s vineyard. Even though Ahab was the established authority, he could not alter the reality of this theft by calling it something else — zoning alterations or land reform. Parents …
Watching One Dragon Eat the Other One
“Modernity itself is in deep crisis, and the postmodern ethos which is sweeping over it is bringing not only some relief to evangelical faith which had been abandoned on the margins by modernity, but also a whole new set of challenges.” [David Wells, Above All Earthly Pow’rs (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005), p. 11]
Gaining Tenure Through “Eye of Newt” and “Dried Bat Liver”
“This is where the jargon of deconstruction, poststructuralism, and kindred Continental imports has been a godsend for ‘cutting edge’ academics. It has allowed them to indulge their moralism to the hilt while at the same time appearing to be intellectually sophisticated (or incomprehensible, which is often just as effective).” (Tenured Radicals, p. xvi).
Tapering Off Backwards
“But in the meantime, private schools that care about their academic integrity need to resolve to have nothing to do with vouchers themselves. he who takes the king’s coin becomes the king’s man. Whatever kindness God may show to those making their way out of Egypt, those who have already made it out and who …
He Adds No Trouble to It
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 91 “In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble” (Prov. 15:6). Blessings are blessings and curses are not. This is simple enough to understand when we are only dealing with …