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Psalm 128 Sermon: The God-Fearing Man’s Family
I’ve preached on Psalm 128 many times. It’s one of my favorites. Here’s a sermon preached at Christ the King Church in Greenville, SC on March 13, 2022. Read more
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Does Modern Day Israel Have Right to the Land?
Why does the modern nation-state of Israel have a “right” to its land in the present day? Israel has a right to its land because the people who ruled it before them gave it to them. That’s it. That’s the sole rationale. And that’s just fine. All nations have their land based on gift, purchase,… Read more
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More February 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Creation/Evolution, Spurgeon on Islam, Postmillennialism, Rise of Liberalism/Progressivism, Anti-Semitism, Rights, Drugs, Etc.
“O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.” — Thomas Chalmers — “A piety which concerns itself only with man’s soul and leaves the world to the devil is a profane piety” — R.J. Rushdoony — “Faith stands in antithesis to works;… Read more
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Jesus and the Fulfillment of Israel’s Covenant: Holy Land and Holy People
[Another version of this essay was published under the title “The Story of Israel” on the Theopolis website.] Today’s news headlines, popular podcasts, and social media discussions, are dominated with questions about the modern nation-state of Israel and land disputes in the Middle East. Who owns the land, sometimes called the “holy land”? I am… Read more
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We Are Still Living in the Early Church
We are still living in the days of the early church. God promised through Moses he would be faithful to (at least) a thousand generations (Deuteronomy 7:9). Moses died around 1400 BC. If a generation is 40 years, Moses promised God would show faithfulness to his people for (at a minimum) 40,000 years. We have… Read more
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The Post-War-Between-the-States Consensus
The Episcopal church’s bishops voted to take the word “obey” out of the wife’s marriage vows in 1922. See https://www.nytimes.com/1922/09/13/archives/brides-no-longer-need-say-obey-episcopal-house-of-bishops-votes-to.html. The Presbyterian church (PCUSA) ordained its first female elder in 1930. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_E._Dickson. Horace Bushnell, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch all advocated for a utopian “social gospel” by means of statism in the late 19th/early… Read more