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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Proverbs and the Culture War
Scripture gives plenty of commands, examples, and descriptions of godly people fighting what we today would call the “culture war.” Proverbs in particular is instructive. Five examples with selected commentary: [1] Proverbs 25:26: “A righteous man who falters before the wicked Is like a murky spring and a polluted well.” Those who surrender to the wicked allow them to…
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Tucker and Trump: The Free Market, America First, and Other Odds and Ends
Years ago, Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson got into it over self-driving trucks. Shapiro defended the free market to do its thing. Carlson said he it would serve the common good to not allow self-driving trucks because it’s the most popular job for high school educated men and putting 10 million workers out of a…
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Young Men Are Radicalized and It’s Our Fault
Following Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, etc. along with the groyper movement, anti-Semitism, and other alt-right views, are all ways young men are getting their revenge. This is not just about young men being immature, transgressive, and edgy. Radicalization like this happens for a reason. Young (white, especially) men have been shamed and scapegoated for a…
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The Nagging Wife
The reason Proverbs warns about the nagging wife is not only because it is a form of disrespect, but because a woman cannot lead a man into leadership. When a wife nags a man about his responsibilities, she’s basically telling him to “man up,” but a man cannot be nagged into mature masculinity by a…
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