2013 was a culturally eventful year for the United States: the Supreme Court upheld principal provisions of the Affordable [sic] Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, just as it overturned principal provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Prop 8, both of which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. [...]
Month: January 2014
A Curse on Aborticide
Every January many churches in the United States highlight God’s truth as it relates to preborn children, notably in memory of Roe v. Wade, the January 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Actually the term abortion includes the definition of “the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus by natural causes before it is [...]
The One People of God: Covenant as Jew and Gentile
Introduction Cornerstone is a church, not a social club, not just a group of friends (though it is that, too). It’s a church. This first Sunday of 2014, on which we ordain and install a new officer, I feel led by the Holy Spirit to preach about the church. What is the church? The church [...]
The Way of Greatness
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at [...]
The 10 Best Books I’ve Read in the Last 10 Years
1. Herman Dooyeewerd, Roots of Western Culture 2. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow 3. Kenneth Minogue, The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life 4. Peter Gay, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy 5. Michael Reeves, The Good God: Enjoying Father, Son and Spirit 6. Thomas Molnar, Utopia: The Perennial Heresy 7. Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society 8. John Oswalt, Called to be Holy 9. G. C. Berkouwer, Modern Uncertainty [...]
Lifelong Faithfulness — Ours and God’s
Text: 1 Samuel 12:1–5, 19—25 Introduction Sermonic Four factors have pressed me to preach about Samuel today. First, I'm reading through the Bible's historical books, and I just re-read this story, and it always rivets my attention. Second, this is the last Sunday in 2013, and this is story conveys great truths for ending our year. [...]
