Have you ever been tempted to doubt God and His power, especially as you look at the state of the world around you? Are you, like me, angered by the millions of abortions that occur each year? If so, I would ask you to dwell upon Psalm 138:6-8:
6 For though the LORD [...]

Many of you may have noticed the preciptious dropoff of blog posts, and bulletin announcements sicne the turn of the year. You may have even wondered if I am going to be bothered with this anymore. All I can say is:

I’m sorry
I’ll try and do better
This is a good model for how we should handle [...]

We are about to enter a new year shortly, the year of our Lord 2007. While this new year is not as distinct as when the new Millennium came around in 2000 (or even when a new decade begins, as will happen in 2010), the beginning of a new year is a good opportunity [...]

Last week we took a first look at why God gave His Law. I mentioned briefly that normally theologians talk about three “uses” of the Law. By “uses” we mean that there are three broad categories of ways in which the Law of God helps people. They can be summarized as:

Use

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Over the years, I have found that one of the most abused verses of Scripture is the King James Version’s translation of Proverbs 29:18, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” In contradiction to almost all principles of interpreting Scripture (context, original language vocabulary studies, comparison with other passages, etc.), this passage is [...]

Being thankful is not an easy thing. It is especially difficult when we are experience a “frowning Providence” as the Puritans used to say (that is, difficult circumstances). We live in a world where people around us get ill, car accidents occur, marriages break up, children disobey, wars happen, and so on… [...]

I had the opportunity this week to listen to an old podcast of R.C. Sproul’s Renewing Your Mind broadcast from October 5th. The subject was the philosophy of Pragmatism, which is perhaps the only “school” of Philosophy made in America. Pragmatism is built into the fiber of our country. Two of the [...]