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O Israel, hope in the Lord
Reflections on Psalm 130 (Part II) | Israel, Jonah and Christ
Reflections on Psalm 130 (Part II) | Israel, Jonah and Christ
Jemimah has responded to my previous post with some thoughts of her own on this vexed topic of man's "digital life" (for want of a better term). I have a series of further sketches on this topic below. Man is the kind of being who can
Myles Werntz reviews a handful of books about the recent phenomenon of "digital church". He summarises one book, Richard Burridge’s Holy Communion in Contagious Times, as follows: The idea of avatars is treated by Burridge not so much as an emergency accommodation but as a clarified description
Newsletter: Desolation | America: a review | Previously, on Psalter the Earth
Reflections on Psalm 130 (Part 1)
An excerpt from a book I've been reading for an assignment. It looks as though casual church attendance has been a problem for a long time: [John] Chrysostom notes that whenever dangers threaten or the pomp of Christian festivals attracts, "the forum will be empty and the
Contemporary low church Christian worship is not merely worship with the bells and whistles removed, but represents an alternative vision of what gathered worship is
Williams Perkins reminds us that even Adam could not merit eternal life
Newsletter: Reflections of the purpose and place of preaching | Laying the Joshua series to rest | Other recent writing
Richard Baxter: The chief end of the commonwealth is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever
My wife weighs in on why we moderns obsessively perform our identities
Joshua as an anticipation, Part III | The final entry in my Joshua series
liturgy
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord… [Eph. 5:18–19] Paul's opposition of drunkenness and Spirit-filled singing has always
baptism
St Cyril's biblical theology of water
Newsletter
Newsletter
Scripture: Joshua
Joshua as an anticipation, Part II
modernity
An assortment of brief reflections on some ways in which our environments help to form our beliefs
church
Peter Leithart on the church as salvation
Scripture: Joshua
Joshua as an anticipation, Part I
Church Fathers
An evergreen exhortation from Clement
Scripture: Joshua
Joshua as a retrospective, Part IV
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Newsletter | Christ's conquest of death and our acquiring of a piano
Augustine
On Augustine's allegorical reading of Cain and Abel
John Calvin
John Calvin: What we have so far said of the Sacrament abundantly shows that it was not ordained to be received only once a year—and that, too, perfunctorily, as now is the usual custom. Rather, it was ordained to be frequently used among all Christians in order that they