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All Quiet On the Western Front

It probably says more about what defines our moments, the television, than the moments themselves, that we keep multiplying defining moments. For my parents’ generation, it was the death of John F. Kennedy. Everyone remembers where they first heard, or … Continue reading

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Adopted By Big Brother

How Bethany Christian Services Became Bethany Services I don’t pretend to understand how this is all supposed to work. How the government got in the business of adoption and fostering I’ll never understand. But there they are, they of the … Continue reading

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Reformed Jerks

It’s an irony that hits close to home, so it’s one I make note of regularly. We who confess to being Reformed, Calvinistic, embracing the doctrines of grace, begin our confession of our distinctives with the doctrine of total depravity. … Continue reading

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One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism

The Bible is organic. The Bible is true, and as such is consistent, coherent, and comprehensible. And the consistent, coherent, and comprehensible truth is, it’s not ordered as a systematics text, far less as a book of church order. It … Continue reading

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Why We Hunger for the Benediction

The Blessing of Blessings I, along with many others, hopped on the liturgy bandwagon back in the day. I haven’t, in fact, hopped off. I have, however, come to a more modest understanding of the relative merits of high liturgy. … Continue reading

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Strange Bedfellows

All is not actually fair in love and war. And the enemy of my enemy is likely not to be a trustworthy ally. Some years ago I had the occasion to speak to a group of pro-lifers on ministering outside … Continue reading

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Everything Old Is New

We are, I believe, by nature dispensationalists. That is, dispensationalism has so dominated the evangelical church over the past 10 years, boldly and faithfully standing on the inerrancy of the Word of God when so many turned their backs, that … Continue reading

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Love Your Grammar

Grammers defiantly not easy getting it right. Know what I mean? Of course you know what I mean. So what difference does it make that I didn’t begin “Grammar’s definitely not easy to get right?” Aren’t grammar nerds, you know, … Continue reading

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Murdering Miracles

It is, in one sense, a simple enough question to answer. When you remember that we are wicked enough to murder our own children it makes sense that we are also wicked enough to not be terribly concerned about the … Continue reading

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Humble Lie

The devil, though His fall from grace was rooted in pride, knows how to use humility. Being craftier than the other beasts, he knows how to use nigh onto all things to bring about his nefarious purposes. He is resourceful, … Continue reading

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