Tag Archives: sanctification

Looking for Life in the Temple of Consumption

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, “Black Friday is proof that Thanksgiving didn’t stick.” I understand the importance of proper qualifications. One should not hear in that pithy phrase a condemnation either of getting a good deal, … Continue reading

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Black Friday; Lisa & I at the Movies and More

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Lisa, Hero; CYBL The Devil in the White City

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New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 50- We must ask God for wisdom, believing He will give it. God’s promises are shocking. Our sin, in turn, is shocking. These two intersect when we in our sin refuse to believe the promises of God. He, because … Continue reading

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New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 49- We must remember that we have been bought with a price, that we are not our own. There has been a great deal of talk lately about freedoms won and freedoms lost. On the one hand we have … Continue reading

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Mighty Tenderness

There is a rather radical gap between the two things that hold my attention most Sunday afternoons in the Fall. On the one hand my eyes are glued to the television as I watch the Pittsburgh Steelers go to battle. … Continue reading

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Must we boycott those who support bad causes?

No. Christians, of course disagree on this. And when we disagree we can usually expect someone to trot out the whole “meat offered to idols” and weaker brother texts discussion in I Corinthians and Romans respectively. Neither of these texts, … Continue reading

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Lisa, RC, Paul Derry and Call Me Barabbas

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Wet Fish

You would have thought that I had just belched my way through a “Hail Mary” the way the woman looked at me. I was a guest at the pastor’s house, having just recently preached in that far off shore. It … Continue reading

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New Theses, New Reformation

Thesis 48 We must remember from whence we came, giving thanks for God’s grace in our lives. It is our perennial weakness that we are prone to forget. We are creatures of the now. We do not often think of … Continue reading

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