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  • “Forgiveness is a Many Splendored (and Complicated) Thing” (3)

    The forgiveness of God!  A many splendored thing! Forgetting But complications happen.  The forgiven hear the simple, straightforward gospel message declaring that we have “redemption through (Christ’s) blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace (Ephesians 1:7).  And then the forgiven forget.  They remember everything else, good or bad that they have.  But with regard…

  • “Forgiveness: A Many Splendored and Complicated Thing” (2)

    To forgive is divine. That is why forgiveness is such a lovely, many splendored thing.  Forgiveness comes from nowhere but from above, from him who dwells in a light no one can approach. Whatever is of God is many splendored.  But forgiveness is the thing outshining them all. In forgiveness is the releasing of the debt we…

  • Still a Creationist…Still a Calvinist

    Such was the writing on the top of the graduation cap of a student who graduated yesterday from Calvin University.  You have seen those graduation caps with their clever messages, like “Thanks, Mom and Dad,” “Free Palestine,”  “Save the Planet,” or $51,934 Later…have you not?  The graduates are excited.  “No more teachers, no more books. …

  • By Leaps and Wounds…

    We say we grow by leaps and bounds.  We speak thus of a flourishing time.  Maybe of a youth in his teenage puberty.  He grows six inches in a summer.  By September he’s faster and stronger than sis who used to be able to boss him around.  Mom needs to buy new clothes.  Dad needs to work more to put more…

  • For a Sanctified Memorial Day

    by Pastor Dick Memorial Day is a day set aside to honor those who have died serving in the Unites States military. It is a celebration and honor of those we call heroes.  It is a remembrance of that for which the heroes died: especially the American cause of liberty and justice for all. I downloaded…

  • By Leaps and Wounds…

    We say we grow by leaps and bounds.  We speak thus of a flourishing time.  Maybe of a youth in his teenage puberty.  He grows six inches in a summer.  By September he’s faster and stronger than sis who used to be able to boss him around.  Mom needs to buy new clothes.  Dad needs to work more to put more…

  • The Singing Sectarians and A Mighty Fortress (2)

    The Singing Sectarians and A Mighty Fortress (2)

    Strict Psalmody?

  • “The God of Love had a really bad week”

    (The following is a slightly edited version of an essay written a few years ago by me in Grace Life, our church magazine)             That is not my title, nor my theology.  It is the title of an article published a few years ago by CNN’s Diana Butler Bass.  And it is her theology. Her title.  Her theology. Butler…

  • Sect One, the Good Christian Schools, and He who Defines the Terms…

    In defense of the novel proposition that “the Christian school (and the use of it) is a demand of the covenant,” Mr. Andy Lanning speaks often of “togetherness.” So Lanning: “the essence of the Christian school is the togetherness of the endeavor to instruct the covenant seed. The Christian school is the covenant parents’ and…

  • Sect One and Sect Two

    Note: Read this fun story by Dr. Seuss to better understand the article below: https://nfc.cambridgeschool.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/THE-CAT-IN-THE-HAT.pdf Those of us familiar with Dr. Seuss remember Thing One and Thing Two. They were the two funny-looking creatures with greenish hair and in bright red tights the Cat let out of the box in the house of Sally and…