Brush Strokes: Like a Pianist Strikes the Keys

"More than one Israelite man went to worship the golden calf because there was a good prospect there for getting laid. It sort of gave the 'golden calf theology' that little extra appeal. God struck twenty-three thousand of them down because of it. We should be well acquainted with God's treatment of them, along with His destruction of So […]

"There is a relation between what predominates in our preaching and what we deem to be of greatest importance" (Gordon, Why Johnny Can't Preach, 91). […]

I think it goes without saying that biblical Christians will vote in November in a way that favors basic pro-life issues, supports a return to some form of fiscal sanity, and rejects all attempts at legislative gender-bending. So much goes without saying. So I am not so much concerned about how our folks vote, for voting out the rapscallions can be edifying […]

Character is shaped by what I’ve called “pictures,” by the models that we strive to imitate and the worlds we attempt to bring into being.  But so what?  Who needs pictures?  Why can’t we deal with reality? In fact, we all live out of pictures, images, models, and metaphors all the time.  Pictures of an ideal marriage shape our aspirations and actions, and p […]

For Christians, the question at a certain level answers itself.  We read because we are people of the book, the people of Moses, David, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Matthew, Paul, and John.  We read because in reading we encounter the God who is Word.  Christians extend this argument easily to “edifying” reading.  If we must read the Bible, then we also, it s […]

Will my children turn out? Will they embrace my teaching, love my Savior, and grow up to be faithful members of the body of Christ? The answer to these questions is fundamentally the same answer to the question, ‘Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?’ Do you believe? But faith is not merely a mental acknowledgment that certain sentences are factually accu […]