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  • From the Manger to the Cross (and other Christmas Notes)

    In Luke 2, heaven opened when the angels met the shepherds. It’s interesting how much this theme of heaven opening shows up in Advent and Christmas hymnody, e.g.• “O Come O Come Emmanuel” – “Key of David come and open wide our heavenly home”• “Good Christian Men Rejoice” – “he hath opened heaven’s door”• “While Read more

  • “Let’s Keep Christmas Commercialized” by David Chilton

    David Chilton article “Let’s Keep Christmas Commercialized” no longer seems to be available but it’s a classic, so I reprint it here (hoping I am not violating any copyrights): Every year about this time, there rises a hue and cry about the “commercialization” of Christmas, accompanied by impassioned pleas to get back to the “real Read more

  • Exile Extended: Daniel 9, Matthew 1, Luke 1

    These notes are a follow up to my sermon from December 3, 2017. In Daniel 9, Daniel is given a vision that covers the next 490 years. The 490 years are an extension of the exile’s 70 years prophesied by Jeremiah (after all, it’s in contemplating the end of Jeremiah’s 70 years at the beginning Read more

  • Christmas Approaches

    “The wonder of Christmas morning is that today we are summoned to look at the baby in the manger and recognise whose stamp, whose imprint, he bears. On Christmas morning we find ourselves gazing at God inside out. This baby is what you get when the stamp of divine nature leaves its exact imprint in Read more

  • The PCA and Christian Education

    Consider the following lengthy quotation in support of Christian education: — There is probably no more important duty than that of the education of our children. The future success of the Kingdom of our Lord is, to a great extent, dependent upon the successful education of covenant children in the knowledge of our Lord and Read more

  • November X Posts and Other Miscellanies – Apostasy, Christian Nationalism and Fascism, Free Markets and Globalism, Depression, Family Counsel, Culture War, Religious Freedom, Creation, Socialism, Israel, Proverbs, Etc.

    November X Posts and Other Miscellanies – Apostasy, Christian Nationalism and Fascism, Free Markets and Globalism, Depression, Family Counsel, Culture War, Religious Freedom, Creation, Socialism, Israel, Proverbs, Etc.

    A lot of pop culture is just a psy-op designed to turn kids into perverts. It’s been working pretty well for a few generations now. — Calvin on apostasy (ICR 3.24.8): “This expression  of our Savior [in Matthew 22:14] is also very improperly interpreted. But there will be no ambiguity if we attend to what our former remarks Read more