The Role of Natural Revelation in the Story of Cain and Abel It is difficult to overstate the profundity of the story of Cain and Abel that is told in the space of just a few verses in Genesis 4. With a strict economy of detail, we are told a story that is incredibly dark…
Little space is typically devoted to expositing Article XXIX because, as Browne and many other commentators have noted, “if the last Article be true, this most probably follows on it.” If “by faith we are enabled to receive Him,” then “the wicked,” who are “void of a lively faith,” will of course be unable to…
Rightly Handling the Word of Truth in Its Internal Variance of Texture & Taste Your words were found, and I ate them, And your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, For I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts. (Jeremiah 15:16) There is a Scripturally warranted…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
The night outside the concert hall is cold. The audience arriving? Most are old. Some push their walkers. Many walk with canes. Some are in wheelchairs. Nobody complains, For they’ve been promised bodies remade, new. How can that be? The music holds a clue. They’ll hear a sound they hope that heaven makes, A passion…
What Still Divides Us: The Differences Between Protestants and Roman Catholics. By Josh Maloney. San Diego: Sola Media, 2025. 74 pp. Free Ministry Resource (paperback). When I first started listening to podcasts about a decade ago, The White Horse Inn was already a longtime veteran in Christian digital media. As described by their website, their…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
After Richard Crashaw. Balaam’s donkey spoke but the Lord’s did not— And now I tell ya, I wandered long about that there, Pastor said, and this, his lips popped, is what I got. He pondered the difference, talked billy and mare, Then he stopped. His tongue clicked against his front teeth hard. Hardly looking for…