Until recently human beings lived a generally unified life. Meaning we lived, worked, and worshiped in the same city. Now it is common for people to live in one city, work in another, and even possibly worship in yet another. What does it mean to walk together in the modern era? How can we walk together in the modern era? Do the digital tools exist to recovery some of the Parish life that has been lost? … More Building A Digital Parish
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Click to listen to this blog be read … More Musings Divine #12: Nothing Between Us and God
Audio Version of Musings Divine #3 In the Christian Faith, a good citizen is one who carries out all his private and public societal obligations faithfully. What do I mean by societal obligations? Societal obligations are those obligations that we have by virtue of nature. Psalm 128 is a good place to find what I … More Musings Divine #3 “What Is A Good Citizen?”
In Part 1 of this series I laid out the case that: American Protestantism tore its own statues down and ripped her own Constitutions up more than a generation ago when we banished the hymns, the ancient creeds, and confessions of faith that guided us for centuries…. millennia. Without these landmarks to guide her the … More Honor Your Father And Mother Part 2
On the Lord’s Day we’ve begun a study in the Book of Philippians recently. Though I am not leading the study, I have been reading it a lot in my private devotional time so that I can better participate in discussions with the group. One particular verse in chapter one has intrigued me and so … More Being Partakers of Grace
In light of our sermon on Sunday under the same title, I thought I’d add a few more thoughts. First let me state the two main premises from Sunday’s sermon briefly, and then in upcoming blogs I’ll add a few practical suggestions to help us find a starting place. The first is that the American … More Honor Your Father And Mother Part 1
Struggling with patience? Welcome to the club. It is a very big club. … More As Regards Patience
I saw a quote from Charles Spurgeon the other day that was posted by some reformed social media account. What follows is a summary. “If someone speaks ill of you don’t be upset. You are far worse than he has said.” This morning in my reading in the Imitation of Christ I read Thomas a’ Kempis’ … More The Choice Of Humility, How To Make It, And The Benefits of Making It
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts.” Abandoning natural biblical marriage either by never entering into it or by ending it for unjust causes result in both outward expressions of violence and inner … More Praying For Marriage and Children Part 2
This month we are, as a body, praying for two restorations. The first is the restoration of natural biblical marriage. The second is the restoration of a spirit of love for children in our nation. First, what do we mean by natural biblical marriage? In the creation of the world there was a specific order … More Praying for Marriage and Children Part 1
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