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Confessing Christ as King
“To confess Christ as King means that the Kingdom He revealed and inaugurated is not only a Kingdom of some distant future, of the ‘beyond’ and thus never conflicting with or contradicting all our other earthly ‘kingdoms’ and loyalties. We belong to this Kingdom here and now, and we belong to it and serve it ...
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John Calvin on Remembering Your Baptism
“…there is no doubt that all pious folk throughout life, whenever they are troubled by a consciousness of their faults, may venture to remind themselves of their baptism, that from it they may be confirmed in assurance of that sole and perpetual cleansing which we have in Christ’s blood.” – Institutes of the Christian Religion, ...
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The Substance Is Come, and the Shadow Has Gone
Isaiah 65:17-19: For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness. 19 I will rejoice ...
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The Sign of the Seventh Day
I am teaching a Bible class at The Classical Academy in Franklin, and we are presently engaged in a study of Genesis. The students are keeping reading journals to coincide with their studies, and I encouraged them to look for repetitions of words or phrases; rhythms in the text, or changes in rhythm to the ...
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Influences of Author Neil Gaiman
After having Neil Gaiman’s Newbery-winning work, The Graveyard Book, recommended to me by a couple of different sources, I picked up a copy at the Hutchmoot in August. Although I am in the thick of this unique read, my curiosity about the author was sufficiently piqued, so I did some rummaging on his website. Under ...
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Three Questions to Confession
In his work Trees and Thorns, James Jordan raises the point, in relation to Genesis 3, that God did not immediately ask Adam whether or not he had disobeyed. Rather, that’s the third question that is asked. With the first question of “Where are you?”, God is essentially asking a question about relationship. Clearly it ...
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Defining Marriage
In this thorough post, Alastair Roberts provides a thoughtful exposition of the implications of gay marriage on society, and how the discussion of that subject should be broached. While somewhat lengthy, I commend the whole of the post to you.
Here are a few quotes that stood out in particular from my reading, with notations from ...
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The Answer’s in Genesis 2
“Since Adam was a priest, and priest of the garden, spiritual leader of humanity, the fact that he needed a wife means that clerical celibacy is Satanic to the core. If there is any kind of man who needs a wife, it is a clergy-man. A man is in a profound sense of “alone” unless ...
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