Tag: god
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A Masculinity Manifesto (Repost)
This essay already appeared on this blog and also on Kuyperian.com last year, but I wanted to repost it as a stand-alone piece. I love it when various interest of mine converge in one place, and that’s the case with Romans 2:6-16. This passage brings together some of the themes I’ve emphasized in my teaching…
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Waxing Nostalgic
I was going through some old emails the other day and came across an email I wrote to my kids on the occasion of one of them graduating from high school. This is a slightly edited and slightly depersonalized version of that email: ———— Graduating high school is an important milestone in life. It’s a…
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Merry 8th Day of Christmas!
Merry 8th day of Christmas! And happy Jesus’ circumcision day! Today is the Feast of the Circumcision and Naming of Jesus. Luke takes care to record Jesus’ circumcision in 2:21. The shedding of blood on Jesus’ 8th day can rightly be viewed as a foreshadowing of the cross. His circumcision confirms that Jesus is a…
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A Christmas Chronology: Notes on Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2
If you put the first two chapters of Matthew and the first two chapters of Luke together, you can basically plot the first 40 days of Jesus life with a good bit of detail. Both Matthew and Luke record the day of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem (day 1). Luke tells us he was circumcised on…
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From the Archive: AIMING AT SHALOM:THE CHURCH’S MISSION OF JUSTICE AND MERCY
AIMING AT SHALOM:THE CHURCH’S MISSION OFJUSTICE AND MERCY This article was originally published in 2004. Charles Spurgeon once quipped, “If you give a man the gospel, wrap it in a sandwich. And if you give a man a sandwich, wrap it in the gospel.” With those words, the great Baptist preacher captured the essence of the…
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Worship Exhortation – 7/28/24 (Re: Olympics Opening Ceremony)
This is a rough summary that combines ad expands the exhortation I gave before worship and before the Lord’s Supper on July 28, 2024: I did not see the Olympic opening ceremonies the other day. I was traveling, but honestly, even if I was not traveling, I probably still would not have watched. However, I…
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Sermon Follow Up, 1 Samuel 13-16
1 Samuel 14:47ff might make it sound like Saul was a great warrior. And he did have a measure of success, obviously. But his ongoing wars have to be understood as a mixed blessing to Israel. V. 52 tells us he fought the Philistines “all his days.” The problem is that the never actually won. …
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Baptismal Exhortation, June 2024
One thing conservative and Christian people do a lot these days is talk about how over several generations evil has progressed. It seems evil is growing stronger in our culture, year by year right now. Darkness is getting darker and covering more ground. Things that were once unthinkable and even illegal are now celebrated in…
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Progressives Will Not Make Very Much Progress, and Other Worldview Notes
I was teaching a Bible study on Judges 9 the other night and it occurred to me just how relevant this chapter is to many of our current issues. (We will eventually get audio up on our website.) First, anyone who wants a so-called “strong man” to rule should pay close attention to the beginning…
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Easter Miscellanies
Here are some things that have been on my mind during this Easter season: In the sermon on 4/7/24 on Matthew 27:57-28:20, I made the assumption that the guards at the tomb where Jesus was buried were Roman. The question was asked afterward if they could have been Jewish guards. The text is not clear…
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