Go Prepares Both Meal and Eaters

Go Prepares Both Meal and Eaters At this Table, God delights to feed us. But God does not just feed us, He prepares us to be fed. He undertakes the feeding, and He undertakes the preparation for feeding. Of course, the preparations began before the foundation of the world, when God the Father elected a [...]

Deferred Glory is Great Glory

Deferred Glory is Great Glory Every week, when I read the words of institution for this Supper, it includes the phrase “you show the Lord’s death till He comes.” This means that this meal has two elements in it—consummation and delay. We commune with the Lord now, and we show the Lord’s death until He [...]

Well, That’s Awkward

Well, That’s Awkward “If we ask God to forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, then it might appear that we are really asking God not to forgive us at all” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 14). from Blog and Mablog See it at: http://www.dougwils.com/Chrestomathy/well-thats-awkward.html

And Slew the Little Childer

And Slew the Little Childer Whenever you have to deal with something like the Connecticut shooting, something that simply crushes the heart, it is important to think carefully before speaking or writing. This is not the time to be debating gun control, drone attacks in the Middle East, and it is certainly not the time [...]

Against the Caricature

Against the Caricature “Anyone who comes away from a careful reading of the apostle Paul’s teaching on marriage with the idea that the husband is ‘the boss’ and the wife is ‘the slave’ is someone not to be trusted with any text” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 8). from Blog and Mablog See [...]

Having Exemplars Is Not Moralism

Having Exemplars Is Not Moralism “The writer to the Hebrews evidently did not see any dichotomy between holding up Christ on the one had as the sole object of, and the supreme example for, faith, and holding up the Old Testament saints on the other hand as supplementary examples of faith” (Carrick, The Imperative of [...]

How They Both Receive All

How They Both Receive All “A godly marriage occurs when a man and a woman both die to themselves, and are raised to the life that seeks the best interest of the other in all things. This is the only kind of godly marriage there is. And when we give all away in this manner, [...]

Tullian keeps digging | HeadHeartHand Blog

“Here’s the worrying pattern I see in Tullian’s theology. In Jesus + Nothing = Everything, Tullian worked hard to remove any moral or ethical link between our obedience and God’s blessing. In Glorious Ruin, Tullian labored to sever any moral or ethical link between our sin and our suffering. In this latest blog post, Tullian [...]

And In a Straight Line

And In a Straight Line “It is essential that the preacher preach from the heart and that he preach to the heart” (Carrick, The Imperative of Preaching, p. 54). from Blog and Mablog See it at: http://www.dougwils.com/Who-Is-Sufficient/and-in-a-straight-line.html

Being Fitted

Being Fitted The Puritans used to speak of improving their baptisms. By this they did not mean that the sacrament of baptism had any deficiencies, but rather that the sacrament of baptism was a beginning. God is easily pleased with us, and with our improvements, but He is not easily satisfied. In fact, because we [...]

Triablogue: Hiding in plain sight

Hiding in plain sight A stock objection which unbelievers routinely raise to Biblical miracles is the allegation that the world you and I live in doesn’t resemble the world of the Bible. Biblical narratives are studded with miracles, but we don’t experience that in the modern world. Rather, we experience the uniformity of nature. The [...]

Thank God that Christians Are Not Totally Depraved – Reformation21

See it at: http://www.reformation21.org/articles/thank-god-that-christians-are-not-totally-depraved.php

http://www.dougwils.com/The-Lord-s-Table/and-eats-hate.html

And Eats Hate God does not just feed us when times are easy. He feeds us when we are at home and at peace, He feeds us on the road, and He feeds us when we are at war. He sets a Table for us, David says, in the presence of our enemies. There are [...]

N.T. Wright on what it means to be human – Jake Belder

N.T. Wright on what it means to be human Over the last couple of weeks as I have wandered the streets of Hull, I have had the opportunity to listen to three lectures N.T. Wright gave at a conference the West Yorkshire School of Christian Studies hosted in 2010. The theme of the conference was [...]

He Gives Us Food

He Gives Us Food In partaking of this meal, we are recognizing that the Lord Jesus is our ruler and sovereign. We rejoice in His righteousness, and we exult in His care for us. That care is manifested in a glorious way, here, at this Table. “For the Lord your God is God of gods, [...]

Shared from Orthodoxy

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Time to die: U.N. ads promote killing off the elderly

What’s the solution to over population? Make more room through euthanization. See it at: http://standupforthetruth.com/2012/11/time-to-die-u-n-ads-promote-killing-off-the-elderly/

Do People Really Vote with Their Wallets? The New Moral Majority and the 2012 Election | Canon Fodder

See it at: http://michaeljkruger.com/do-people-really-vote-with-their-wallets-the-new-moral-majority-and-the-2012-election/

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/brothers-train-up-the-next-generation/print

See it at: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/brothers-train-up-the-next-generation/print

No exit | Rough Type

No exit One of the advantages of embedding culture in nature, of requiring that works of reason and imagination be given physical shape, is that it imposes on artists and thinkers the rigor of form, particularly the iron constraints of a beginning and an ending, and it gives to the rest of us the aesthetic, [...]

Conviction and No Condemnation Together | Exhortation

Conviction and No Condemnation Together Our constant temptation as conservative Christians is to take our definition of sin from Scripture, which is appropriate, but then to calibrate our conviction levels for those sins on the basis of our own experience. We know that not all sin is equally serious, and so the levels of a [...]

Darren Aronofsky’s Noah: Environmentalist Wacko | Godawa’s MovieBlog

Darren Aronofsky’s Noah: Environmentalist Wacko Okay, here is the full article I wrote analyzing the Noah script. More here than where it was published online. By Brian Godawa As a screenwriter of films like To End All Wars and Alleged which deal with faith, and as the author of a novel called Noah Primeval about [...]

Coming Near to Hear

Coming Near to Hear When we gather at the Lord’s Table, we are coming near to Him. We are approaching Him. How could we be partaking of Him and not be coming near? From the vantage of the holy things, our worship is a coming. From the vantage of our daily lives, our worship is [...]

Obscure Writing Is Not Evidence of Profound Thinking

Obscure Writing Is Not Evidence of Profound Thinking The two main principles of Joseph Williams’ Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace are (1) it is good to write clearly and (2) anyone can. But not everyone agrees with the first premise. One of the reasons this happens is that when we “read about a [...]

Honor, Not Dishonor

Honor, Not Dishonor [Concerning 1 Pet. 3:7, on the wife as the weaker vessel] “Too often men read this passage and unfortunately respond to it with a junior high mentality. Thinking of every difference in terms of competition, they start doing a little touchdown dance. ‘My wife loses! I am the strong one!’ But this [...]

Edible Theology, Liquid Doctrine

Edible Theology, Liquid Doctrine We sometimes divide up things that ought not to be divided. Just because we can distinguish them does not mean that they should be separated. We can distinguish height, breadth, and depth, but we cannot remove one without removing all of them. We can distinguish soul and body, but to separate [...]

So Let’s Not Kid Ourselves

So Let’s Not Kid Ourselves “When a guy singles out a young woman in some romantic fashion, this means that one of two things is happening. Either he is trying to get her into bed dishonorably, or he is attempting to get her into bed honorably” (From 5 Paths, p. 72). from Blog and Mablog [...]

The Art of Neighboring

from Challies Dot Com – Informing the Reforming See it at: http://www.challies.com/book-reviews/the-art-of-neighboring?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+challies%2FXhEt+%28Challies+Dot+Com%29

Making a Splash

from Blog and Mablog See it at: http://www.dougwils.com/Who-Is-Sufficient/making-a-splash.html

http://bit.ly/P7p5Rv

from Justin Taylor See it at: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/between2worlds/~3/cPA8kYFyy7w/

TGC Mobile | Article | FactChecker: Divorce Rate Among Christians

See it at: http://thegospelcoalition.org/mobile/article/tgc/factchecker-divorce-rate-among-christians

Jesus’ Wife fragment judged a fake

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Bill Nye warns: Creation views threaten US science – Boston.com

See it at: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2012/09/24/bill-nye-warns-creation-views-threaten-science/1Ggmqzn3hwCW1G83eDhsrL/story.html

Triablogue: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

from Triablogue See it at: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/09/fearfully-and-wonderfully-made.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Ftriablogue+%28Triablogue%29

Gospel Begins With Promises

from Blog and Mablog See it at: http://www.dougwils.com/The-Lord-s-Table/gospel-begins-with-promises.html

Triablogue: The Professor Who Thought He Knew Bigotry When He Saw It

from Triablogue See it at: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-professor-who-thought-he-knew.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Ftriablogue+%28Triablogue%29

Fors Clavigera: Annotating Texts: Some Suggestions (with Pictures!)

from Fors Clavigera See it at: http://forsclavigera.blogspot.com/2012/08/annotating-texts-some-suggestions-with.html

Gathering to Multiply: Free Webcast Events and Discipleship Material with Francis Chan and David Platt

from Justin Taylor See it at: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2012/08/22/gathering-to-multiply-free-webcast-events-and-discipleship-material-with-francis-chan-and-david-platt/

When We Say “Gospel,” Do We Really Mean “The Spirit?”

“Is it possible that we are using “gospel reflection” language as buzz words that reduce the Christian life to continual reflection on a set of propositional truths instead of the dynamic Word that brings us into relationship with Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit?” See it at: http://shar.es/vUAtS

Thomas Nelson Ceases Publication of David Barton’s Error-Ridden Book on Jefferson’s Faith

from Justin Taylor See it at: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2012/08/09/thomas-nelson-ceases-publication-of-david-bartons-error-ridden-book-on-jeffersons-faith/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+between2worlds+%28Between+Two+Worlds%29

Triablogue: 51 Biblical Proofs Of A Pauline Papacy And Ephesian Primacy

from Triablogue See it at: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/51-biblical-proofs-of-pauline-papacy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Ftriablogue+%28Triablogue%29

Triablogue: 51 Biblical Proofs Of A Pauline Papacy And Ephesian Primacy

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Exhortation as Softener

from Blog and Mablog See it at: http://www.dougwils.com/Exhortation/exhortation-as-softener.html

How the internet changed how we discuss things – Jake Belder

from Jake Belder See it at: http://jakebelder.com/how-the-internet-changed-how-we-discuss-thing

The Magic is Elsewhere

from Blog and Mablog See it at: http://www.dougwils.com/Chrestomathy/the-magic-is-elsewhere.html

Cloud advertising, circa 1890 | Rough Type

from Rough Type See it at: http://www.roughtype.com/?p=1789

I was offline before offline was offline | Rough Type

from Rough Type See it at: http://www.roughtype.com/?p=1762

A Deep Sixing Sanctification

from Blog and Mablog See it at: http://www.dougwils.com/Chrestomathy/a-deep-sixing-sanctification.html

TGC Mobile | Article | The Page That Changed My Life: Douglas Wilson

“I was a pastor by this time, and I remember telling somebody that Jesus was going to come again, and “not to push me.” That’s all I knew. I was my very own non-millennialist. This was not a good position for a pastor to be in—it takes a good bit of preaching material (called Bible [...]

No Blank Screens

from Blog and Mablog See it at: http://www.dougwils.com/Who-Is-Sufficient/no-blank-screens.html