God has given us a holy day every week, on the first day. Each week we are reminded that we are living in the new heavens and the new earth. Each week we remember that just as God rested after His work of creation, so Jesus Christ rested after His glorious work of re-creation. In …
Worldliness and Faux Innocence
“The stream of historic orthodoxy that once watered the evangelical soul is now dammed by a worldliness that many fail to recognize as worldliness because of the cultural innocence with which it presents itself.” [David Wells, No Place for Truth (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993), p. 11.]
Principles and Methods
“Naomi instructed Ruth to keep this in mind when she presented herself to Boaz: ‘Therefore wash yourself and anoint yourself, put on your best garment and go down to the threshing floor . . . (Ruth 3:3). The point being made here is a very simple one. The Bible reflects what we all know to …
Self-Incrimination
The requirement of independent confirmation is not waived simply because a person confesses to something. That independent confirmation may certainly be circumstantial, but authorities in any realm ought to be wary of simply accepting someone’s accusation against himself. Say that a man, wracked with guilt, confesses to a murder. He goes to the police and …
A Really Troublesome Cartoon
Here’s a good one. HT: David Field
Credenda is no Deadenda
February 2006 Dear Friends of Credenda, We really are grateful for the financial support that you offer to our magazine. We are now entering our eighteenth year of publication, which helps to explain quite a number of things. This accounts for the adolescent sense of humor, as well as the fact that we don’t appear …
Sweeping or Sleeping
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 76 “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute” (Prov. 12:24). Generalizations are just that, generalizations. But there is a God-given reason for advancing them nonetheless. Generalizations are still true. And, as a …
Maturity and Discernment
In this next chapter of Hebrews we begin a short introduction to the nature of Christ’s priesthood and intercession for us. The writer of Hebrews is then diverted into a discussion of immaturity and apostasy before he returns to this theme in the middle chapters of his book. “For every high priest taken from among …
Blogs and Accusations
It has come to my attention that an announcement was made to the Warfield list concerning a web site that has been set up by a member of our church, a site that has been recycling a number of old accusations against us. I am confident that many of the readers of the Warfield list …
The Lewis and Clark of the Soul
“Lewis and Clark didn’t return from their trip and say, ‘Well, we didn’t find the Northwest Passage, but we did find ourselves.’ But that is the spirit of Bobo travel. Our travel dollars are investments in our own human capital. We don’t just want to see famous sights; we want to pierce into other cultures. …