Category Archives: kingdom

Us and Them

It certainly is, comparatively speaking, a subplot. But it is plenty important. As God’s Word describes the power of God’s words in creation, we ought to be astonished. God speaks, and there is light. He speaks and the whole of … Continue reading

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The Sins of Silence

Time was when those eager to not be thought fools thought it wise to stay silent. Speaking could change how you are perceived, or it could just confirm a negative opinion already held. This wisdom, whose source is in dispute, … Continue reading

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My Brother, My Father

It was 85 years ago today that a woman I never met gave birth to a boy I’ve never not known. The day I met that boy, who by then had become a man, the woman who had given birth … Continue reading

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The World and All

The Sadducees and Pharisees were no dummies. They just weren’t as smart as their enemy. As we read through the gospel accounts, it seems their strategy was simple: they would put an end to Jesus by forcing Him to destroy … Continue reading

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For Whom the Toll Belz

I was a student at Grove City College when I received a subscription to The Presbyterian Journal. It was not good looking. It had no articles apt to grab the interest of most college students. It wasn’t an academic publication. … Continue reading

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Christos Ho Kurios

Rome could not help but trip over her own feet. When you get the gospel wrong the error does not stay hermetically sealed, leaving everything else safe. Rather, the whole ship goes down. Rome, seeking to elevate the church, created … Continue reading

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An Ordinary Christian Life

It has become rather fashionable in certain circles to decry the rise in the church of what we call “the cult of personality”—and rightly so. A broader body consumed with consuming theological and biblical teaching via sundry media outlets is … Continue reading

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The Wonder of It All

Is it not true that most bad ideas are good ideas that took a wrong turn? That the thing pursued by the idea is a good thing, but the directions are off? Consider our desire, born right out of God’s … Continue reading

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The Way in the Manger

It is increasingly fashionable, and has always been quite easy to debunk a number of Christmas season staples that are either less than certain or certainly not true. We don’t know, for instance, how many wise men there were, because … Continue reading

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Interesting Times

There is a sort of application of the Observer Effect that applies to the news of the day. Sometimes confused with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which argues that at the subatomic level we can discern either the velocity of a … Continue reading

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