The Blood That Satisfies
If you are in Christ, you live because of the blood of the Lamb of God
“What did the blood of the lambs do? It turned away God’s wrath and appeased His anger against sin. It satisfied His justice. The blood of the lambs caused God to pass over each house—for a time. The blood satisfied on the night of the Passover, but each year the sacrifices of the lambs had... Continue Reading
Is Original Sin A Legal Fiction?
So what do Roman Catholics — or Protestants who insist on real and personal holiness — teach about the sin of Adam imputed to new born infants?
“The magisterium has some explaining to do if you can swallow the idea that humans come into the world with the guilt of Adam’s sinful estate and then object to Protestants drawing a line between the imputation of Adam’s sin and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. If you want to be a Pelagian about sin,... Continue Reading
9 Things You Should Know About Rabbinic Judaism
To close a small portion of the knowledge gap about our religious Jewish neighbors, here are nine things you should know Rabbinic Judaism
“In Rabbinic Judaism, the synagogue is the Jewish house of prayer. The buildings are not necessarily used for communal worship since Jewish worship can be carried out wherever ten Jews (a minyan) assemble. All synagogues contain a bimah, a table from which the Torah is read, and a desk for the prayer leader. The Torah... Continue Reading
He Is “Altogether Lovely!”
The Christian cannot say enough good about the Savior
One of my favorite passages in all Christian literature is this little summary by John Owen as he employs the expression of the bride of Christ in describing her beloved in the Song of Solomon: “He is altogether lovely.” Here it is. The Christian cannot say enough good about the Savior. An eternity of... Continue Reading
Lloyd-Jones on Scandalous Grace that Isn’t Cheap
There is a fatal tendency to put up law and grace as antitheses in the wrong sense.
Is it not true to say of many of us that in actual practice our view of the doctrine of grace is such that we scarcely ever take the plain teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ seriously? We have so emphasized the teaching that all is of grace and that we ought not to try... Continue Reading
When Childhood Has Become a Race
Goodbye busy summer, hello busy school year: What have we lost in the rush?
For what purpose, parents might ask, have we banished boredom? And for what price have we filled the nooks and crannies of the everyday, cramming out the teachable moments as we sit in our house, and when we walk by the way, and when we lie down, and when we rise (Deut. 6:7)?Will someone finally ask... Continue Reading
“Men Were Created To Employ Themselves”: Calvin on Gen. 2.15
We tend towards one of two extremes in our attitudes towards work: either we make too little of it, or we make too much of it.
If Adam’s “earthly life” was in fact temporary, so also was the job he was given. In other words, even in a sinless world, work would have given way to that eternal rest, worship, and fellowship with God which was from the very beginning prophetically imaged in humankind’s weekly rest, worship, and fellowship with God.... Continue Reading
4 Ways To Live Out Your Role As Helper
One of the reasons many wives struggle in their marriages is because they refuse to embrace the role God has given them as helper to their husband.
We are not called to help our men become the perfect specimen of a husband. We are called to help him become the man God has called him to be. Namely holy and mature in Christ. You are your husband’s helper. This is not a demeaning position, but a high calling–the calling to be a... Continue Reading
Why Does God Let Me Stay So Weak?
Why is it so hard to put sin to death? Why do we struggle and fail so much?
The more we realize our weakness, then when anything good happens through us, we know it is the power of Christ, not us. When we have tried again and again to conquer a sin, become aware of our own weakness in the battle, then finally conquer it, we know it was by Jesus’ grace and... Continue Reading
Opposing Views on Homeschool Regulation
HSLDA responds to policy recommendations from a group advocating for more government oversight
Should states regulate homeschoolers more closely? Would that help prevent rare instances of neglect—or establish a dangerous precedent of government interference? An article in the Sept. 6 issue of WORLD explores the question of abuse among homeschooling families. Although available evidence suggests abuse and neglect are less common than average among homeschoolers, the Coalition for... Continue Reading