Tag: jesus
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The Fulfillment of Prophecy: Literal or Otherwise?
I’ve appreciated some of what I’ve read from Insurrection Barbie, but this claim that biblical prophecy is always fulfilled “literally” simply isn’t true. For example, Genesis 3:15 promises a seed of the woman who will bruise the serpent’s head, even as his own heel is bruised. Most, probably all, Christians would agree that this seed…
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Trinity Sunday Notes
What is the design on the cover of the bulletin? The design with a circle interlocking a triangular shape is called “triquetra.” The triquetra is a cross between a triangle and a circle. Our triquetra has an additional circle layered into the design.This perhaps the most widely recognized, traditional Trinitarian symbol. Note that it is…
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Wedding Homily #6
The homily delivered at my youngest daughter’s wedding. Video available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/OWmn3Qm8qf4. Audio of the homily is here: JT and Annie, it is a great honor to stand here with you today as you take your marriage vows before God and these witnesses. It is an honor to charge you from God’s Word. Annie, it’s…
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Eight Theses on Tithing (should be nine theses)
This paper on tithing is now almost 30 years old, so I’m sure I would say some things differently now. I also always intended to add a ninth thesis on tithing as a liturgical act, and develop the place of the offertory in the weekly Lord’s Day covenant renewal service, but as of today I…
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April 2026 Notes and X Posts: Old Podcasts, 1819 Podcasts, Israel and the JQ, American Identity and Immigration, Keeping the Rightwing Coalition Together, Feminism and Family, Dispensationalism, Romans 11 and Preterism, Patriarchy, Three Types of Political Leaders, Jesus in Gethsemane, Moon Landing Conspiracies, AI, Drugs, Anti-Natalism, Paedocommunion, Gendered Piety, Christian Economics, Etc.
The blessings God promised to Abraham flow out to the world through Jesus and the Spirit. — Easter forces us to choose our empty: Either the tomb is empty of Jesus’ body, or life is empty is of all meaning. — It’s not just Good Friday. It’s The Best Friday. What’s so good about it?…
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The Puritan Hope vs Dispensationalism
The “Puritan Hope,” as Iain Murray called it, was not some kind of nascent dispensationalism, as some have suggested. It was just historic postmillennialism, including the view that the Jews (along with every other people group) would be converted at some point in history. The Puritans did not believe Jews were in covenant with God…
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May 3, 2020 Sermon — God and Our Gatherings: Jesus’ Grace Meets Thomas’ Doubts (John 20:24-29)
We have been told for several weeks now that the church’s worship gatherings are non-essential. That is how they have been categorized. The thought seems to be that the world can get on fine without us. Everything can just go on fine without us. The thought seems to be that without our public prayers, without…
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April 19, 2015 Sermon — No Other God and No Place for Doubt: The Word Was Made Flesh Again, and We Beheld His Glory (John 20:24-31)
Today is the third Lord’s Day of Easter season. But we are going to be looking at what happened on the second Lord’s Day of that very first Easter season. This is eight days after Jesus’ resurrection, which by John’s way of inclusively counting days puts us again on a Sunday, the first day of…
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April 20, 2014 Sermon: The Battle-Scarred God (John 20:24-31)
In John chapter 20, beginning at verse 24, we read: Now Thomas called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and…
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April 12, 2015 Sermon — Peace Be With You: The Scars and the Spirit of the Lord (John 20:19-23)
It is Easter or Pascha. Either one of those names will do. Either one of those names can be used to label this 50-day season celebrating the resurrection of Christ. Some years we have put Easter on the bulletin. Other years we have used Pascha. But either term is fitting. Easter is certainly the more…
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