Princeton Cemetary

This is a really great photo tour, linked from Shepherd’s Scrapbook.

Son, Husband, Father, Friend

I wrote this poem some time ago and thought I would share it here for your encouragement.

To be a man in a land of plenty
To do what is right when it is not easy
To walk a line in the sand
This is my life’s work 

To be a son of the Father of fathers
To bear His name [...]

A few thoughts on Work

Proverbs has much to say on work ethic…in fact in just one chapter there are at times many sayings regarding the topic. My daily readings today lead me to consider the way in which I labor. Proverb 33 speaks of work ethic by way of witnessing the sluggard and a man lacking sense. After passing [...]

Watson on law and Gospel

Thomas Watson deals here with Church goers who pride themselves with being godly, but have no heart for the Lord. Their salvation is tied up in the past and the present has no reflection of Christ. They hold that they are saved because of what they did in faith and repentance and how now they [...]

A Blundering Male

In an instant married life can go from peaceful to stressful and back again, add kids and the adjectives start flying. Tonight I prove again that I am a blunder-head when it comes to being a husband, and this example probably proves it in many more areas that I really don’t want to admit at present. [...]

“If a Rabbi could amen your sermon then you’ve missed it.”

Tom Ascol brought a fine lecture tonight in our Preaching Module for the Midwest Center for Theological Studies. In a 10 step overview of preparing a sermon he briefly touched on an aspect of preaching that is all too often missing and all too easily misused. That aspect is finding Christ within the passage. Christ [...]

Faith the means of our Justification

“Faith is the empty hand which grasps Christ.” Sam Waldron puts it well in His exposition of the 1689 Confession regarding the means of our justification. Faith is that which saves because it is that which focuses “all our attention on Christ and looks away from itself to Christ.” It is the golden ring that [...]

Justification

Forensic, synthetic, imputed, absent of human merit, secure, and by faith alone are all words that demonstrate a Reformed view of the justification that God grants to sinners. Rome has presented another view that considers the following words in line with the Scriptures. A proclamation, analytic, infused, congruous merit, insecurity, and by faith plus works. [...]

Future Braveheart

Not quite as large as William Wallace but just as fierce! Even though Titus means “of the Giants,” I doubt that our family heritage will grant him such a stature.

Behold Your King!

King Jesus has made one triumphant entry in the city of Jerusalem where he laid down his life for the church and will one day return in another triumphant entry when he puts down sin and death forever in Hell and ushers in the New Heavens and the New Earth. Zech 9:9, Mat 21:1-11, Rev [...]