On Organ Grinders and Monkeys
A good point, Justin, which has been made to me in a few emails I’ve received this morning. I would respond as follows: 1. The pastor is the full time person and therefore the buck stops with him. Elders have…
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On Organ Grinders and Monkeys
A good point, Justin, which has been made to me in a few emails I’ve received this morning. I would respond as follows: 1. The pastor is the full time person and therefore the buck stops with him. Elders have…
A Legacy of Shame: Luther and the Jews
Some years ago I was standing at a pedestrian crossing in the town of Echterdingen, near Stuttgart in Germany. It was a Sunday morning. The crossing light was at red. I looked quickly left and right, there was no car…
A Legacy of Shame: Luther and the Jews
Some years ago I was standing at a pedestrian crossing in the town of Echterdingen, near Stuttgart in Germany. It was a Sunday morning. The crossing light was at red. I looked quickly left and right, there was no car…
August 30: 1 Cor 4
1 Corinthians 4:1 “This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.” The apostle Paul was neither afflicted with false…
August 27: Psalm 35
It is sobering to see the extent to which David, ‘the man after God’s own heart’, spent so much of his life embroiled in conflict. From the obvious tensions between him and his brothers when we first meet him, through…
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Carl, thanks for the thoughtful post. As usual, there’s always food for thought–and I always want just a bit more nuance here or there! What do you think about how this all relates to a plurality of elders? It seems…
Russ Moore to the Rescue
Russell Moore has written a great piece which exposes the idolatrous nature of Glenn Beck’s ghastly self-promotional pantomime on Saturday, and the evidence this provides of the woeful state of an evangelicalism that, to put it bluntly, greets blasphemy as…
Russ Moore to the Rescue
Russell Moore has written a great piece which exposes the idolatrous nature of Glenn Beck’s ghastly self-promotional pantomime on Saturday, and the evidence this provides of the woeful state of an evangelicalism that, to put it bluntly, greets blasphemy as…
Life Together – or Maybe Not
A friend who works at a seminary told me the other day of an incident which he described as `personally very instructive.’ Somebody called his institution, wanting to know about the state of the soul between death and resurrection. The…