The Name of Jesus

“It is an experience of our days that the spoken name of Jesus alone exercises an unforeseen power; and the effort which it cost to speak this name is perhaps connected to some faint apprehension of the power which is inherent within it. Wherever the name of Jesus Christ is spoken it is a protection [...]

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Marriage By Faith

We are about to enter a new era of world history. How will it come?
The last time it came, it came by means of God conquering the impossible and overcoming barriers that were superhuman. That is how God does it every time He does a new thing. The last time, He overcame the remnants of [...]

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What Happens if the Church Does Not Sing the Imprecatory Psalms?

What happens if the church doesn’t sing the Imprecatory Psalms? We don’t like them. They are mean and nasty, and the one outstanding virtue inculcated in our public schools and universities (as Allan Bloom noted more than twenty years ago in his observations of American college students) is “niceness.” But what happens when everyone is [...]

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Objectivity and Schizophrenia

The whole of the modern world is still an outworking of Augsburg and Westphalia. It is now a world incapable of marriage, intimacy, and relationship. The whole of the modern world is terribly, terribly wounded. It gives rise to children who have a variety of dysfunctions. Some of them are brats. Some of them are [...]

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Marriage and Betrayal

Perhaps the most fearful of all possibilities in the world is the possibility of betrayal on the part of someone who is in a “position of trust.” This, unfortunately, is the first block in what ought to be the foundation of every marriage in the world. Every woman has a far distant memory, and now [...]

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Pansexual to Mature Marriage

There is a young man (under 35) who sometimes stops and speaks to me
at my “office” (the coffee bar at the Wild Oats Grocery Store). He is
very articulate and highly intelligent, and I always enjoy my
conversations with him. In our last few conversations it has become
apparent to me that he is homosexual. He has been [...]

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Jesus and Confusion

What began at the Tower of Babel has increasingly become a global affair. All of
world history is a project to become a “tower to the heavens” as a self
contained and self sufficient world, but this is increasingly judged everywhere,
and more and more, crisis is introduced and interjected into history.
Jesus and His church speeds and spreads [...]

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Outside the Box

At the always marvellous Auburn Avenue Pastor’s Conference this past week the inimitable Douglas Wilson complained that he is tired of hearing of the need to get out of the box.  He said that some people need to stay in the box. Indeed.
 
Who can disagree? The so-called “Federal Vision” controversy showed that a lot of [...]

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Tyler Origins of CRW

What follows is from my paper: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN-FOLD COVENANT MODEL, WITH NOTES ON THE FIVE-FOLD COVENANT MODEL (Biblical Horizons Occasional Paper No. 29). More background on the whole development of Covenant Renewal Worship, in its present form, can be had in the paper as a whole, which is available from Biblical Horizons. [...]

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Biblical Horizons Conference Information

The 2008 Biblical Horizons Annual Weeklong Bible Conference was 21-25 July. Speakers this year were Peter Leithart on the work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Jeffrey Meyers on Colossians, James Jordan on Liturgical Music, and Rich Bledsoe on Harlotry in the Bible. Dr. Peter Witt gave a report on his visit to underground churches in North Korea.
Recordings of lectures [...]

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