The Paradox Must Stand
Questions about soteriology, the particulars of the salvation of sinners, are ones which have occasionally frustrated me for many years. I once was a vocal Arminian, ready to try to tear to shreds in a...
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Treasure at Powell's
Growing up near to Portland, Oregon, there has always been one place downtown where I could spend inordinate amounts of time, Powell's Bookstore. On Wednesday I headed down with my girlfriend to enjoy...
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Five Years
My blog reaches a milestone today. I posted my first blog post five years ago, a quote from Thomas à Kempis from The Imitation of Christ. While there have been a great many changes in my life over the...
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Christmas: Condescension of Infinite Majesty!
O Nativity of spotless sanctity! O birth honorable for the world, birth pleasing and welcome to men, because of the magnificence of the benefit it bestows; birth incomprehensible to the angels, by...
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Chrysostom on Epiphany: Magi Saved by Grace through Faith
The Magi, teachers of a false faith, could never have come to know Christ Our Lord, had they not been illumined by the grace of this divine condescension. Indeed the grace of God overflowed at the...
View ArticleCheap marketing tricks, anti-intellectualism and the "I hate religion" crowd
There's a popular video going around facebook lately where a young man, whom I believe is a brother in Christ, waxes poetic about how he hates religion. I've heard this many times before, how religion...
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Kevin DeYoung: Following up on the Jesus/Religion VideoBehold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!-Psalm 133:1
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What of it?
One of my favorite movies is the 2003 "Luther," starring Joseph Fiennes. One of my favorite lines from the movie comes from Luther preaching in the Wittenburg church. I had assumed that the makers of...
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Random Update #8: Neurology → Nephrology
Well, my blog has reached a low ebb in the last few weeks. For one reason or another I've lacked all inspiration to write. But there have been a few things happening...1. I just spent a month working...
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John Bunyan for Lent
Lent has begun and I normally like to write an Ash Wednesday-post but did not have access to my blog yesterday. I wasn’t able to make it to an Ash Wednesday service but spent yesterday evening with a...
View ArticleThe waves and winds still know
Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side;Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;Leave to thy God to order and provide;In every change He faithful will remain.Be still, my soul; thy best, thy...
View ArticleChronological Snobbery: A rant
Man can only find life among the dead.-ChestertonWhen I walk into a Christian bookstore I often feel a mixture of disgust and anger. Whether it's the visual insult of garish "Christian" "art" which...
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For His Name's sake unfalteringly
"It was not any grace in me, but God who conquereth in me, and He resisted them all, so that I came to the heathen of Ireland to preach the Gospel and to bear insults from unbelievers, to hear the...
View ArticleHope for those condemned by the law
But the Gospel is properly such a doctrine as teaches what man who has not observed the Law, and therefore is condemned by it, is to believe, namely, that Christ has expiated and made satisfaction for...
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Calvin: Christ's design on Palm Sunday
In the first place, we ought to remember Christ’s design, which was, that he came to Jerusalem of his own accord, to offer himself to die; for it was necessary that his death should be voluntary,...
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Good Friday: What we have merited
St. Bernard was so terror-stricken by Christ’s sufferings that he said: I imagined I was secure and I knew nothing of the eternal judgment passed upon me in heaven, until I saw the eternal Son of God...
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Dawn of the New Creation
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realised the new wonder; but even they hardly realised that...
View ArticleAnd I believe in one Catholic and Apostolic Church
For anyone who checks this blog still, you've probably noticed that there hasn't been much activity here. I've not felt much inspiration to write lately and, to be honest, have been struggling...
View ArticlePentecost: And I believe in the Holy Ghost
The Holy Ghost, then, always existed, and exists, and always will exist. He neither had a beginning, nor will He have an end; but He was everlastingly ranged with and numbered with the Father and the...
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