First thing, if you haven’t already, go to the post below and look at the trailer for The Grace Agenda. We’ll wait here. Okay, second, if you haven’t already, check out this link to Justin Taylor that points you to an irenic and helpful discussion between Tullian Tchividjian and Kevin DeYoung on the subject of …
Failure and Success
What are the odds that someone can be very successful, and yet mangage to walk humbly with his God? Well, the odds are pretty thin, say most, but what we neglect to notice is that the odds are not exactly great for those who are unsuccessful either. Among believers, we have a deep suspicion that …
Seven Thoughts on Time Management
1.The point is fruitfulness, not efficiency. You should want to be fruitful like a tree, not efficient like a machine. But this fruitfulness is a function of God’s blessing, and it is surrendered work that is blessed work. Seek that blessing, and seek it through concrete surrender. Such surrenders are not abstract. Put your Isaacs …
Now That’s Pauline
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #38 “For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me” (1 Cor. 4:15-16). …
Grease in the Dumpster
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #38 “Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place; and labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: …
Apostles Are Troublesome When Alive
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #37 “For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ’s …
Their Raggedy Founder
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #36 “Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you” (1 Cor. 4:8). Paul is about to explain …
We Think We Hit a Triple
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #35 “For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it” (1 Cor. 4:7). The …
Beyond What Is Written
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #34 “And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of …
When Gollum Bit His Finger Off
Believers often find themselves up against it. The challenge might be medical, familial, financial, educational, or personal. We tend to think in terms of pressure or stress, and when it gets really bad, trouble. The old Puritans thought in terms of affliction, as well as in terms of God’s antidote to affliction, which is contentment. …