I have for a long time thought of the watching of competitive sports as mere idolatry. It may be idolatry or it may not, but I failed to realize there is more going on, and it has to do with the way God has structured the world and time as an unfolding story. At the…

A mighty boast got me thinking: “I deal with the White House. I deal with Tony Blair. I deal with presidents around the world. I pastor a multimillion-dollar congregation.”  – Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, GA Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw…

The church in Rome wrote to the Corinthians: Every sedition and every schism was abominable to you. Ye mourned over the transgressions of your neighbors: ye judged their shortcomings to be your own. (1 Clement 2:6) This is profound by itself. They had such love for one another that they counted each other’s failings as…

I’m borrowing heavily from Doug Wilson’s Reforming Marriage. A great book. You can buy it or read it online. It will be helpful to start with a brief grammar lesson. There is a difference between indicative and imperative statements. An indicative is a statement of fact; there is no ought in it. The chair is…