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Steve Deace Endorses Newt Gingrich

Exhortation: The Feast of the Holy Innocents

Communion Meditation: Evermore and Evermore

Abortion and Roe v. Wade

The New American Militarism by Andrew Bacevich

Childermas; The Feast of the Holy Innocents

Not an Addendum

Christmas Sermon: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth

Communion Meditation: The one who made the sun

Babette’s Feast: A Movie Review

Exhortation: Prepare Him Room

The Death of Professor Francis Nigel Lee

Is Celebrating Christmas UnReformed?

Are You Going to Church on Christmas?

Pagans Defined

Hebrews and Authorship

The Death of Christopher Hitchens and Kim Jong Il

Sermon: The Advental Call to Obedience and Worship, Part II

Communion Meditation: Edible Word

Exhortation: According to thy Word

Pseudo-Oneness

The Idolization of Marriage

The Death of Christopher Hitchens

Gratitude brings light

Foreign Policy Links

When Agnostics tell the truth

Advent Sermon: The Advental Call for Peace in the Church, I Thessalonians 5:12-13

Painters Plus in Pensacola, Florida

Exhortation: Far as the Curse is Found

Communion Meditation: Even so come…

John 15, Election and Covenant

The Fullness of Advent

Douthat on Gingrich and the Tempting of the Religious Right

The Arrogance of Ignorance

Different Dispositions

Liturgy and Child Rearing

Herman Cain Suspends Campaign!

Jesus, the Human

Highest Creature

The Christ and Adam Teams

Communion Meditation: Humbling the Proud

Union with Christ by Robert Letham; First Thoughts

This is Aslan’s Doing!

Pure Grace

Movie Review: True Grit

Sermon: Mark 11:1-10; Advent

A Fuller Hope

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata 140 – J. S. Bach)

I like Cigars, but I love my Pipes even more

Advent Prayer

Communion Meditation: United to Him

Exhortation: Examining our Lives

Union With Christ

Thanksgiving Scripture and Prayer

Law as Friend

Weekly Communion

Exhortation: Our Expectations

The Lord’s Supper is the World

The Sacraments and Union with Christ

Given For You

The Eyes of Treason

Calvin and the Sacraments

Is He Safe?

St. Athanasius on the Psalms

Ecclesiastical Self-Critique

Exhortation: For All the Saints: Theology in the Holy Church

Communion Meditation: Let Us Gladden Our Hearts

C.S. Lewis and Food

The Intent of Biblical Stories

Man Needs Liturgy

Theology of Patience

All Saints’ Day

The Contradiction of Division

The Reformation: The Truth Will Set You Free

Reformation Day: The Authority of God’s Word

Exhortation: Pardon is Grace

Communion Meditation: The Lord of History

What Does Justification Mean?

If You Continue in My Word…

Communion: Spirit-Led Faith at the Lord’s Table

Exhortation: God Moves Stuff; Covenant Response

The Old World Returning…

Samson’s Mission as Our Mission

The Homosexual Debate

Baptismal Exhortation: From Darkness to God’s Splendor/Light

CREC Name Change

Exhortation: Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches

Communion Meditation: A Rich Banquet

Exhortation: Creedal Certainty

Communion Meditation: Tasting of His Glory

Smelling like Jesus

Our Enjoyment of God

Exhortation: Truly Human

Communion Meditation: The Source of Our Strength

Samson and the City Gates

Pat Robertson, Alzheimer’s and Divorce

Samson: God’s Wave of Wrath

Calvin, the Nuanced Scholar and Ecumenical Genius

Existence and Musicality

Worship and Culture

Exhortation: The Trinity and 9/11

Communion Meditation: Memorial Place

The Pentecosting of the Spirit

How Evangelical Leaders Have Changed Since 9/11?

Tuesday Links: News and Music

Exhortation: Our Labor is not in Vain

Communion Meditation: What is a Sacrament?

Reviewing Books

Pipes and Links…

Training Priests and Kings

Grisha Goryachev plays Panaderos

Born-Again is not Enough

Grace Sovereignly Bestowed

Never Risk-Free

Communion Meditation: To Hear and to Act

Exhortation: Worship as Missional

Farewell to Descartes

In Eating and Drinking

Word, Sacrament, Gospel, and Sacred Violence

Pastoral Counsel, Maturity, Caution, Alcoholism, and Ten Theses: Some Further Reflections

Christian not Bohemian: A Response to John MacArthur’s “Beer, Bohemianism, and True Christian Liberty”

Philosophical Wisdom v. God’s Wisdom

Communion Meditation: Listen to the Roar

Exhortation: Redemptive History in One Word

The Third Day

Where is the New World Hermeneutic?

Children and Lord of the Rings

Laugh and Fear Not

Baptismal Exhortation: I Bind Unto Myself Today

Communion Meditation: The Protection of the Husband

Trinity and Temple

Calvin on Weekly Communion

Samson, the Better Riddler

Nevin’s Importance

Rick Perry, Prayer, and Religion

Exhortation: The Danger of Complacency

Communion Meditation: Fighting Mordor with Bread and Wine

Eating with the Hobbits

Confusing the Wicked With Riddles

Women Disappearing from Churches, Says Barna

Hard Work-ism

The Adequacy of our Christology

Exhortation: A Conservative and Radical Gospel

Communion Meditation: The Table of Reconciliation

Ascension and Glory

Covenant and Reprobation

Norman Shepherd and John 15

The Death of John Stott

Jonathan Edwards’ On Our United Happiness

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Pastoral Work and Depression

Assurance, Examination, and Community

Exhortation: The God Who Laughs

Exhortation: God as Cosmic Mr. No?

Communion Meditation: Our Sabbath Rest

How to Disagree While Being Both Faithful and Winsome

First Century Questions About Infants

DeYoung, DeRestless & DeRealLiteralLutheran Ninjitsu

Samson, the Comedian

Trinitarian Laughter

Taming the Bible

Exhortation: What does it mean to be a citizen?

Communion Meditation: The Song of Victory

Judges and Laughter

Biblical Interpretation

What is the Biblical Case for Ordained Ministers Ordinarily Serving at the Table?

Luther and The Small Catechism

Machen and Shepherd on James and Paul

N.T. Wright and Death Bed Counsel

More Thoughts on Psalm 8:3

Pastors and Warfare

Bachmann and Left Behind

Psalm 8:3 and Silencing Foes

The Messianic Bible

Shepherd and Murray

Exhortation: The Strong Name of the Trinity

Communion Meditation: Those who are bread eat bread

Baptism Random Notes

New Calvinist on the Block

Trust and Obey: The Norman Shepherd Controversy

Talking to Babies and Infant Baptism

Calvin and 6 Day Creation

Book Review: Lent

Wedding Homily for Julian and Leah

Exhortation: Redemptive Chronology

Basis of our Eschatological Certainty

Vacation and Worship

Download E-Books for $2.99 or less from Amazon’s Sunshine Deal

The Duty of Worship

And Speaking of Joy…

Schmemann, Liturgy, and Joy

Peter Leithart on the Belgic Confession’s View of Baptism

Quarreling, Machen’s Warrior Children, Reformed & CREC

Tim Challies Responds to the Piper/Warren Interview

The Dance of the Trinity, John 14:15-21; Sixth Sunday of Easter at Providence Church

Communion Meditation: The Table of our Father

Exhortation: Resurrection and Conquest

Poetry is Good

Doxology in Redemption: A Homily for the Graduating Class of Trinitas, 2011 by Rev. Robert Looper

Doxology in Creation: A Homily for the Graduating Class of Trinitas, 2011 by Rev. Uri Brito

Flannery O’ Connor on Ayn Rand

C.S. Lewis on Hell

Calvin on Reason

Camping’s Chaos

Ron Paul Podcast

A Prayer for the Saints in Joplin, MO

Saturday Psalter, Genevan Psalm 4

Commentary Giveaway

The End of Sects

The Parent/Child Relationship

Amazon Selling More Kindle Books than Print

Trinity Talk Interview with author Duane Garner on Why the End is Not Near

Yahweh and Jehovah’s Witnesses

Machen’s Vision of Transforming the World

Critics of Theonomy and the Eschatology of Victory

Van Til in 30 seconds

Eight Year Anniversary!

The Stoning of Saint Stephen

Warrior Messiah

Baptistic Conclusions

Leithart vs. Witherington on Genesis 3:15

Exhortation: Truth and Table

Communion Meditation: This Table of the Shepherd

A Disciplined Regiment of Holy Warriors

Saturday Psalter: Psalm 23, Sons of Korah

Happy and Holy Homes

Trinity and Selfishness

Free e-Books

Leviticus as Resurrection

A Reformed Response to Rob Bell’s Hell

Psalm 115; Not Unto Us; Brian Penney

Truth and Love

Shepherds and Wolves

Third Sunday of Easter; Luke 24:13-35: Resurrection Perplexity and Gospel Confirmation

Exhortation: Mother’s Day and the Rhythm of Resurrection

Communion Meditation: Confusion and Certainty

Glorified, Bodily Resurrection

Truth Must be Socially Represented

Betraying the Lordship of Christ

Psalm-Prayer for Easter

Koinonia

What the Liturgy does…

How is Jesus known?

Confession Anyone?

From Bread to Wine

The Christian’s Greatest Response…

Death Precedes Life

The Anglican Church of Canada says “no” to communion without baptism

Easter Proclaims the Death of Evil-Doers

Leithart on the death of bin Laden…

bin Laden dead

Communion Meditation: Old Men and Young Children

Exhortation: That we might have life in His Name

Saturday Psalter, Psalm 2, Genevan Psalter

Reconciliation

Living the Double Life

Praise as a Perpetual Psalm

Would you pay for on-line news?

The Gospel of Reconciliation

Can the Kindle be Corrupted?

Psalmic Maturation

N.T. Wright on Ephesians, part 2

We are God’s poem; His art work; N.T. Wright on Ephesians

The Imagination of C.S. Lewis

Easter as Salvation that Good Friday Accomplished

A Collect for the Renewal of Life

YouTube Now Renting New Movies

The Music of Psalm 148

666 and Neron Caesar

Galilee and Jerusalem

A Prayer for Texas

Everything is Dependent on God

RESURRECTION!

Not a take-it-or-leave it thing…

Communion Meditation: Table of Joy

Easter Exhortation: Raised with Christ

Lenten Quotes, Day 40

Saturday Psalter, Genevan Psalm 1

The Terror of Enemies

Good Friday Homily: The Politics of Good Friday

Good Friday Confession of Sin

Lenten Quote, Day 39

Earthquakes

Assurance and Counseling

Leithart’s Homily on the Cross

Resurrection and Symbolism

Lenten Quote, Day 38

Maundy Thursday Confession of Sin

Library E-Books Coming to Kindle

Lenten Quote, Day 37

Angels Descending…

Word and Broken Bread

The Necessity of Lent

Collect of the Day

Lenten Quote, Day 36

The Origin of Nominalism

From the Past: Betrayal in the Garden

Midday Prayer: The Daily Office for Monday, 18th – Holy Week

Lenten Quote, Day 35

Communion Meditation: The Table for Disciples

Exhortation: The Suffering and Vindicated Servant of Yahweh

On Jesus’ Victory

How Much Sleep is Important?

Palm Sunday

Lenten Quote, Day 34

Saturday Psalter: Psalm 23, The Great Battle Hymn

Lenten Quote, Day 33

Triune Love at the Cross

Donkeys and Horses

A Lenten Sermon: Martha’s Resurrection Theology in Light of Death; John 11

Lenten Quote, Day 32, on Palm Sunday

Ron Paul’s Pro-Life Message

Lenten Quotes, Day 31

Palm Sunday Pastoral Meditation

The Entry into Jerusalem

Lenten Quote, Day 30

The Eloquence of Infants

Babies Cannot But Trust

Lenten Quote, Day 29

Welcoming the King…

Jesus as the Coming Ark

Exhortation: The Valley of Dry Bones

Communion Meditation: The Table for the Resurrected

Lenten Quote, Day 28

Doxology

Lenten Quote, Day 27

Lenten Pastoral Meditation

The Tomb and the Father of LIes

Open Your Graves

Lenten Quote, Day 26

Rio’s Devastation

Lord Over Death

Viva Futebol!

Unbind Him!

Lenten Quote, Day 25

Lenten Quote, Day 24

Video Book Review #11: Parenting in the Pew by Robbie Castleman

Lenten Quote, Day 23

The Raising of Lazarus by Giotto

Care to Know?

Exhortation: The Tree of Life

Communion Meditation: The Healing Grace of our Lord

Trinity Talk Interview with Andrew Sandlin

Lenten Quote, Day 22

Lent: Bringing the Gospel into focus

Lenten Quote, Day 21

Pastoral Meditation

Lenten Quote, Day 20

Sin as the Poisonous Snake; or, Jesus as our Substitute

Saliva and Creation

Lenten Prayer

The World as Doxology

Clinging to the greater Joshua in baptism…

Lectionary Connection

Lenten Quote, Day 19

A Point on the use of “sacramental” and “worldview”

Yann Tiersen’s La Chute

How much music is in your home?

Sacramental…

Every Baptism is Infant Baptism

Living Publicly

Oversimplification…

Dignified Death?

Lenten Quote, Day 18

Little Children in Worship

100th Goal from the Greatest Goalie Scorer in Soccer History

Lenten Quote, Day 17

Lenten Sermon; John 4:5-15: The Redemption of the Bride

The Passion Week as a Second Creation Week by Kanaan Trotter

Exhortation: Dying in Christ

Communion Meditation: Living Water

Water Beats Blood

Lenten Quote, Day 16

Saturday Psalter; Psalm 12, Genevan Psalter

Jesus, the Seventh Husband

Jesus’ Weakness

Moving Towards People

Lenten Quote, Day 15

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Bricks and Idolatry

Sermon: The True Temple: Light and Salvation for the World; John 3:1-17

Lenten Quote, Day 14

Lenten Collect

A Lenten Hymn

Lenten Quote, Day 13

A Lenten Collect

David Platt on Functional Universalism

Prelude from lute suite 4 – John Williams

Lenten Quote, Day 12

Wilson on Lent without Easter

Lenten Quote, Day 11

Communion Meditation: The Bright Kingdom

Lenten Quote, Day 10

Saturday Psalter; Psalm 23, Genevan

The Tree of Death and Salvation

Lenten Meditation: The Salvation of the World

MSNBC’s Martin Bashir on The Paul Edwards Program

Lenten Quote, Day 9

Penitential Prayer of St. Ambrose of Milan

Rob Bell’s Love does Not Win

Lenten Quotes, Day 8

The Greater Joseph; or, Ruler Over All

Being a Disciple

Imaging the Triune Life; or Living Perichoretically

Lenten Quote, Day 7

Lenten Quotes, Day 6

O Lord, Look Down From Heaven, Behold by Martin Luther

Lenten Prayer

Jesus, as New Temple

Lenten Quotes, Day 5

Sacred Violence; or, the Necessity of the Cross

Lenten Prayer

Sermon: Matthew 4:1-11; First Sunday in Lent: The Devil’s Game: Seizing Kingship without Cross

Communion Meditation: Feasting in God’s Meal

Exhortation: Cruciform Living

Lenten Quote, Day 4

Saturday Psalter; Psalm 32

The Temptation of Jesus

Lenten Quote, Day 3

Thoughts on the Church Calendar

Jesus, the Great Exegete

Erik Satie Gymnopédie nº 3

Lenten Meditation

Lenten Quotes, Day 2

Stones and Bread

Food and Temptation

Lenten Quotes, Day 1

Lent: Bringing the Gospel into Focus

Transfiguration Sunday: Matthew 17:1-5; Transfiguration and Resurrection

Baptismal Privileges and Responsibilities

Localized Theology

Divorce and Incompatibility

Exhortation: The Transfigured Christ

Communion Meditation: The Beloved of God

Christians and Free Societies

Concerning the Dating of Revelation

Modernism=Atheism

A Voice from the Clouds

Transfigurationism

For the Evening: Johann Pachelbel Canon in D Major fantastic version

Suffering and Glory in Transfiguration

Saturday-Psalter; Romanian Orthodoxy Chant

Theology of “chabod”

Absolution

Circumcision and Baptism as Death Rites

Fitting In…

Book Review: Jehovah’s Witnesses Answered by David Reed

Infant Faith

Communion Meditation: Discerning the Body

Exhortation: A Call to Persevere

Saturday Psalter: Psalm 148:1-3

Martyrs and Unity

The Christian Right and the State

Evangelicals vs. Liberals in the Pacific Northwest

Thoughts on High Worship

Establishing new kingdoms…

Dominion and Psalmnody

Dreams by Langston Hughes

Love is inebriating…

Psalm-Roaring begins young…

Peacemakers…

Exhortation: O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High!

Communion Meditation: Beatific Table

Video Book Review #10: Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy makes us jump…

Separation and the Scornful, and Psalm 1

Conservatives and their Agenda

Running and glory…some thoughts.

Ronald Reagan and Hollywood

The merciful One…

Propitiation

Communion Meditation: Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness

Exhortation: Challenging the Wisdom of this World

Thoughts on the disappearance of the family table…

The Problem with Husbandry

Leithart on rods of measuring…

Preaching Law/Gospel

Believe in Yourself!

Martin Luther on the role of princes and potentates…

Thus saith the Lord

Restoring Genuine Humanness…

Resurrection as Proof

CREC Memorial on Christian Education

Communion Meditation: Heavenifying the Earth

Exhortation: …to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.

Book Review: The 7th Victim by Alan Jacobson

Saturday Psalter: Psalm 145

Solo Scriptura and Autonomy

Leithart on Iconoclastic Charity

Beatitudinal Observations…

Video Book Review #9: Calvinism in a Las Vegas Airport

Strength and Weakness

Jesus as Center

Covenant Renewal Worship: Introductory Thoughts

Communion Meditation: Renewing the World through bread and wine

Exhortation: The Aroma of the Cross

Saturday Psalter: Psalm 51

Leithart on the Development of Doctrine

Evening Chopin

Liturgical Edenic Sin

A Liturgical Helper

The Kingdom of Heaven

Make a Joyful Noise

Communion Meditation: In His death, there is life

Exhortation: The Alpha and Omega of Forgiveness

Saturday Psalter: Psalm 147

Christ revealed as priest, prophet, and king

Faris Paxton Examination

The Story of the Bible in One Sentence

Exhortation: Discerning the Body

Communion Meditation: Spirit as the Usher of God

Saturday Psalter: Psalm 42

New Year, New Projects!

The Epiphany of our Lord

Twelfth Day of Christmas

Jesus and the Dove in Matthew’s Gospel: Symbolic Reflections

The Scientific Method on Trial

Eleventh Day of Christmas

Constantine and Signs…

The Coming of Jesus in Baptism

Tenth Day of Christmas

Ninth Day of Christmas

2010 in review

Communion Meditation: Priests and Kings

Exhortation: Of the Father’s Love Begotten

Eighth Day of Christmas