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 [...]