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Once for All

by | Jun 8, 2009 | Bible, Preaching, Theology, Worship

I was driving home from a wedding in Tennessee yesterday morning, and so I listened to a sermon on the radio in hopes of having some kind of substitute (however insufficient) for missing church. I found a couple that I had no interest in listening to beyond the first...

Garbage Island

by | Jun 5, 2009 | Church, Preaching, Theology

The other night, I introduced my wife to one of my favorite movies, Ladykillers. (Allison did not like it, by the way.) I have seen it many times before, but I have never heard/understood/appreciated this line from the sermon at Marva’s church, which you might...

Different Regiments of the Same Army

by | Jun 3, 2009 | Books, Church, Culture, History, Theology

I have been thoroughly enjoying Perry Miller’s The Life of the Mind in America, which presents a highly complex picture of early American Christianity. One of the interesting issues he describes is the unique way in which Christians in America achieved a form of...

Alcohol and Isaiah

by | May 29, 2009 | Bible, Church, Theology, Worship

My Bible reading plan takes me through the book of Isaiah at the beginning of every summer, and one of the things that I have newly appreciated this time around is Isaiah’s versatile use of wine imagery. Isaiah uses wine in at least three major ways, as far as I...

Numbers, Nearness, and Holiness

by | May 27, 2009 | Bible, Church, Theology

Biblically speaking, humanity’s nearness to God is more complicated than we often imagine. For example, the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee” would suggest that closeness to God is always a good thing, but this simply is not the case. Rather, the Bible...

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