Tag: bible

  • A Reformed Voter’s Guide

    A Reformed Voter’s Guide

    For the contemplation…of three elections.

  • “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…

  • Forgiveness: A Many Splendored (and complicated) Thing…(1)

    Forgiveness!  How splendid that God forgives us!  For in forgiving us God “sends away” the guilt of sin so that it is no more.  Guilt goes as a scapegoat, and in our guilty place, far into the wilderness to be seen no more, to die, to be…no more.  The glory of God shines brighter than every sun and star…

  • 2024: Fear Not Little Flock!

    Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12:32) In the sermon on the mount Jesus heaps reason upon reason to show why God’s people should not worry or fear with regard to anything on this earth. Consider only Luke’s account. Jesus says there that…