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  • Baptismal Exhortation: Another Link in the Chain

    Baptismal Exhortation: Another Link in the Chain

    Infant baptism is a sign of God’s multi-generational faithfulness. God’s covenants always include the next generation. We Presbyterians call this “covenant succession.” The promise God makes to believing parents is, “I will be your God and the God of your children.” The hope, based on this promise, is that the faith will be passed on Read more

  • Maundy Thursday Leftovers: The Footwashing God

    Maundy Thursday Leftovers: The Footwashing God

    Here some belated notes to go with this year’s Maundy Thursday sermon: Here is a note from our bulletin that explains the service: Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus in the upper room with His disciples just before he was betrayed. On this special night, we remember how Jesus transformed the Passover meal into Read more

  • Odds and Ends

    Odds and Ends

    I’m not any good at Twitter and find it a pain to use. In fact, I hate Twitter and try my best to avoid it. But if I did use Twitter, that’s probably where these short takes would end up. In the meantime, here is a hodge-podge of things I have thought about or read about Read more

  • Palm Sunday Exhortation: Humility and Glory

    Palm Sunday Exhortation: Humility and Glory

    Palm Sunday perfectly captures the paradoxes of the gospel. It juxtaposes glory and humility. In the eyes of the world, if you are glorious you are not humble and if you are humble you are not glorious. But the gospel brings together glory and humility, and on Palm Sunday, glorious humility and humble glory were Read more

  • A Future and Final Coming (An Email to a Hyperpreterist from 2007)

    A Future and Final Coming (An Email to a Hyperpreterist from 2007)

    And he shall come again, with glory, to judge the the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end…. and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Nicene Creed —– With the scourge of hyperpreterism making a reappearance recently, I dredged up an old Read more

  • Psalm 19 and Divine Revelation (Sermon Follow Up, Part 2)

    Psalm 19 and Divine Revelation (Sermon Follow Up, Part 2)

    I want to provide a little more follow up to my two recent sermons on Psalm 19. As I pointed out, some view the psalm as having two parts: verses 1-6 on creational revelation, and verses 7-14 on biblical revelation. Others view it as having three sections; the third section is found in verses 12-14, Read more