Tag: god
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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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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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October ’25 X Posts and Other Notes: Motherhood and Mother Hunger, Christian Nationalism, Puritanism, Welfare, Paedocommunion, Discipline, America’s Christian Founding, the Great Commission, Liberalism/Progressivism, Third-Wayism, the Culture War, Public Education, Feminism and Feminization, Masculinity, Racial Identity Politics, etc.
“Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.” — Charles Spurgeon — “We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive…”…
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What Is a Christian Nation?
People sometimes ask, “What would a Christianized nation look like?” I’m glad you asked. Thankfully, God actually set up a nation one time and gave them a law. So we don’t really have to guess. We can just look at the nation God established and the law he gave them. We can study the Torah…
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Church Courts and Civil Courts
When Christians cannot resolve their differences privately, God commands that we turn to the church rather than to the civil courts. Unfortunately, many Christians are unaware of this command or believe that it no longer applies today. Worse yet, many churches ignore this passage and do nothing to help Christians settle their disputes in a…
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Leadership Requires a High Pain Threshold
Edwin Friedman is one of the best authors to read on leadership. In several places, he makes the point that in order to lead well, a leader has to not only raise his own threshold for pain, but his willingness to endure someone else’s pain as well. This is why empathy can be so destructive…
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