Singing God’s Words or Man’s Words?
Years ago I was asked the following question by someone who holds to exclusive Psalmody: “Do you think it is better to sing God’s words or man’s words?” My answer: we should never sing man’s words. But I say this…
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Logic and Logos
NYU profs Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White open their history of logic, If A, then B: How the World Discovered Logic, with this: “The world is logical, according to some. Others call it absurd. We have never been sure who…
I forgive you, but please don’t call it ‘giving grace’
What should I do when my husband forgets to buy milk on the way home from work? When my kids leave their new bikes out in the rain? When fellow church members are curt or critical on Sunday mornings? Increasingly,…
Tangled Up in Blue: Depression and the Christian Life
“Why doesn’t the church know what to do with depression?” That’s the question I’ve been asking myself since the almost unbearably sad news broke that Robin Williams had taken his own life last week. There were a plethora of responses.…
Tangled Up in Blue: Depression and the Christian Life
“Why doesn’t the church know what to do with depression?” That’s the question I’ve been asking myself since the almost unbearably sad news broke that Robin Williams had taken his own life last week. There were a plethora of responses.…
A Strangled Baby & A Gold Cup
Why do good things happen to bad people and why do bad things happen to good people? Strictly speaking, there has only ever been one good person who has had bad things happen to him, and he volunteered! But the…
Change Everything and Same Old, Same Old
I’ve been on holiday and camp but have returned to find out that nothing has changed in the world of reformed evangelicals and everything has changed. First of all seeing Mark Jones drop the M bomb at Ref 21;…
“Man revolted from his maker”: Calvin on Gen. 3.1-7
The curious decision of Adam and Eve, having been the recipients of such goodness from God, to defect from their Maker, thus spoiling the “native excellence” of both themselves and “the whole world which had been created for them,” raises…
Calvin on the Christian Life
Michael Horton, Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014. 271 pp. $19.99 Crossway Books are doing the church a great service with their wonderful series on theologians on the Christian life. The epigram–‘gaining…
Blindness, Loneliness, and the Abundant Christian Life
My wife and I had been married for nearly a week. Getting home from work, we decided to order a pizza that night for supper. About a half hour later, we heard a knock at the door and asked, “Who…