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The Good Old Way: A Father’s Day Message
Read: Jer. 6:16 a, b; Prov. 22:28 Introduction Jeremiah’s time was eerily similar to ours. God’s people had turned away from him. They’d turned to idolatry and fornication. They were imitating the worldly, pagan practices surrounding them. They were mistreating one another, cheating one another. The politicians cared nothing for God’s truth. Even the priests Continue reading
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God Is Not an Absentee Father
Read: Rom. 8:14–17; Ps. 103:13–14; Mt. 7:7–11 Introduction I’m ambivalent whenever I hear the popular expression “Christ-centered.” It’s understandable why we’d use it. Jesus the Christ died for our sins and rose (1 Cor. 15:1f.). He’s the exact imprint of God to man (Heb. 1:3). He’s King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev. Continue reading
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Wright, Wrong, and Inerrancy
Andrew, I’m curious what you think of Wright’s critique of inerrantism (if that’s a word) as a product of “modernist rationalism”? I do believe that American evangelicalism is very strongly formed by the philosophical foundations of modernist thought in Descartes and others, so in trying to disentangle our theology from these not-so-biblical ways of thinking, Continue reading
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When Law and Liturgy Won’t Work
It’s not surprising that we live in an age of liturgical renewal, because the stripped-down minimalism of modernity as expressed in liturgy has created a vacuum into which the superficialities and inanities and, in the case of some liberal churches, downright demons (like Lutheran goddess worship), have rushed. Liturgies are good, bad, or mediocre, but Continue reading
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God’s Wisdom for Contemporary Youth
Read: Proverbs 1:1–7 Introduction A world of fools The reason that our world is filled with such moral pollution and such frightening evil is that we have turned our backs on God. The wisest man who ever lived (apart from our Lord) said that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Paul Continue reading
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Making Babies in a Brave New World, by Scott Masson
Below is an insightful article from my friend Scott Masson (Ph.D., Durham), Associate Pastor at Westminster Chapel for College & Careers, Associate Professor of English Literature at Tyndale University College, specializing in the areas of hermeneutics and literary theory, and a Fellow at the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Dr. Masson is a remarkably perceptive and courageous critic of contemporary Continue reading
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God Chooses to Forget
Read: 1 Kin. 11:4-6, 34; Heb. 10:16-17 Introduction Please forgive my feigned irreverence, but how can the writer of 1 Kings say that David was wholly true to the Lord? How can the Holy Spirit (who was the primary author) say that David kept God’s statutes and commandments? David was a blatant adulterer. David Continue reading
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Radicalism Is Killing Liberalism
In early 20th century Russia, the Marxist revolutionaries hated the liberal democrats even more than they hated the czarist empire (which was notably hateworthy). The conservative monarchy was autocratic and corrupt, but the liberal alternative, with its Western-style emphasis on free institutions, checks and balances, and procedural democracy stood squarely in the way of Lenin’s headlong Continue reading
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The Religious Apostasy of Economic Interventionism
Introduction The prevailing economic worldview of Western elites[1] in our time is interventionist. By this I do not refer to the idea that the valid role of the state in economics is guaranteeing a level playing field (enforcing contracts, suppressing fraud, and such). This is just what the state should do, but that view is Continue reading
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The Envy Agenda of the Inequality Warriors
The front page of the May 1, 2014 issue of the reliably radical New York Times carried an article by Annie Lowrey about the current Congressional minimum wage debate. It starts with this stark admission: Is a family with a car in the driveway, a flat- screen television, and a computer with an Internet Continue reading
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Barack Obama Is Not the Problem
“[W]hat Obama [has been] trying to do to America would have had no chance of success, and he would not have any chance of election, if far more was not going on, if a far larger movement was not making dramatic gains in a transformational process…. “[D]espite his early life’s unusual features, his vast Continue reading
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Next, Religious Persecution
The United States is the only nation in world history to have been founded largely to guarantee religious liberty. Today, that liberty is under increasing attack. Obamacare is trying to force Catholic hospitals as well as Christian businesses to provide contraceptives to their patients and/or employees. New Mexico will not allow a photographer to exercise Continue reading
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A Lamb for a Household: A Theology of Family Salvation
Text: Exod. 12:1–14 Introduction From Moses’ account of the first Passover we learn great truths about two themes: we learn about God’s way of saving us, and we learn how important the family is in that plan. Before we learn important truths from the Passover about household salvation, we need to learn important truths from Continue reading
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An Analogy for Authority in the Family
The Bible teaches that the husband should “rule” the home (1 Tim. 3:5). It equally teaches that the woman is the “head” and “master” of the home (1 Tim. 5:14). It teaches, further, that the husband is the “head” of his wife (Eph. 5:23). It teaches, finally, that the Dad and Mom share in authority Continue reading
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Easter Culture
It’s easy to think about the implications of Jesus’ resurrection for individuals. It’s especially easy to do this in our time, because we are a highly individualistic society. What’s most important in life is what affects me. I am the sole judge of my “values” and my fate. “No one has the right to Continue reading
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God’s Good Friday Cleanup Operation
Communion remarks at Good Friday service, Trinity Bible Church, Felton, California, April 18, 2014 In Ephesians 5, Paul compares the relationship of a Christian husband and wife to the relationship between Jesus Christ and his church. He writes: Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that Continue reading
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“Narratives”: Pervasive Genteel Disbelief
We have this term now in circulation: “the narrative.” It is one of those somewhat pretentious academic terms that has wormed its way into common speech, like “gender” or “significant other,” bringing hidden freight along with it. Everywhere you look, you find it being used, and by all kinds of people. Elite journalists, who are Continue reading
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Why Socialists Must Destroy the Family
“If . . . marriage is transformed into a temporary arrangement for the satisfaction of the sexual impulse and for mutual companionship, which is not intended to create a permanent social unit, it is clear that the family loses its social and economic importance and that the state will take its place as the guardian Continue reading
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3 Traits of Christian Cultural Leaders
They engage the culture; they don’t retreat from it. They create consensus; they don’t conform to it. They capitalize on opposition; they don’t surrender to it. Continue reading
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What You Owe Your Pastor
Read: Heb. 13:7, 17; 1 Tim. 5:17–19; 2 Thes. 3:1 Introduction Today, I lay before you a bill. It is due on receipt. It is a most urgent bill. It’s a bill that God intends to collect. The Bible is quite clear that the congregation owes its ministers. There are different views of church government and Continue reading

