INTRODUCTION: This is a season for personal inventories, and for resolutions. This is appropriate and fitting . . . unless one of your resolutions needs to be to rely less on resolutions and more on actually doing something. Assuming your resolutions help you get things done, … [Read more...]

INTRODUCTION: This part of the Christmas story is not a stand alone story. In the narrative, we find a type of how all the rulers of this world will eventually come to kiss the Son. THE TEXT: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, … [Read more...]

INTRODUCTION: Holidays are frequently times when people get trapped by the expectations game. Because everyone around you assumes that the day is going to be "really good," "special," or "fantastic," and is constantly telling you to have a "merry" one, it is easy to assume that … [Read more...]

INTRODUCTION: Last Lord’s Day, the message was brought to us from the conclusion of Isaiah 40, and we learned from that message that there are two kinds of waiting. There is a waiting that causes our strength to dissipate, and there is a waiting that gathers our strength for us. … [Read more...]

INTRODUCTION: We sometimes try to cultivate the right heart attitude by denying the obvious challenges and perils in the world around us, and we sometimes try to pretend that we see the "real world" by adopting a cynical and artistic posture toward it all. We think that in order … [Read more...]

47. Liberty and Tyranny/Levin/really good 48. Mystery of Capital/De Soto/world class 49. Screwtape Letters (audio)/C.S. Lewis/just great 50. Deep Exegesis/Leithart/good stuff 51. Dual Citizens/Stellman/okay  … [Read more...]

41. The Luck of the Bodkins/Wodehouse/lotsa fun 42. The Writings of John Calvin/de Greef/first rate 43. The Country Parson/Herbert/great 44. The Pastor as Minor Poet/Barnes/good 45. When Helping Hurts/Corbett and Fikkert/quite good 46. The Four Loves (audio)/C.S. Lewis/first … [Read more...]

34. The Expository Genius of John Calvin Lawson really good 35. On Bullshit Frankfurt good 36. Calvin and the Biblical Languages Currid solid 37. Old English Language and Its Literature Pollington good 38. The Victory of Reason Stark really fine 39. The New Testament (AV) … [Read more...]

INTRODUCTION: As we seek to live our lives as faithful Christians, informed by the Word of God, we soon discover that it is not a simple process. It is not as though the Spirit gave us a rule book, in outline form, fully indexed. He gave us laws, principles, stories, and … [Read more...]

INTRODUCTION: Under the direction of God, in recent years we have been led to redouble our efforts and emphases on what we call mercy ministry. Whether it is a continuation of our labor in the Ivory Coast, or a new field for mercy work in Myanmar, or locally through Sabbath … [Read more...]