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No Small Blessings
In short, there are no small blessings. Think of your coffee, your blueberries, and your new books as ineffable miracles.
An Update on Torrey Gazette
Many voices have helped turn Torrey Gazette into a long family dinner table where everyone can yell at each other. With your help, we intend to keep it that way.
Sanctifying The Sanctification Debate
Can I say this without being accused of heresy: maybe our confessions aren’t useful if we use them as a way to truncate the Scriptures rather than let them speak?
a not-unpleasant melancholy
I'm not feeling sorry for myself (not much, at least), I'm just leaning into it. Sad and tired, yes, but well-soundtracked.
My Epic
Christian music, therefore, must be Biblical. This Christian music should make you think on and remember God’s Word.
The Jesus Prayer
In just a few small words we can express powerful, world-changing truths about who God is, we can acknowledge his role in our lives, we can appeal to the goodness and mercy that he has promised us, and we can be encouraged in our pilgrimage knowing that YHWH, our God, the Covenant Redeemer, will never fail us.
Unnecessary Goodness
Go watch Chef. Then sit down with a copy of Capon's book. Wine and cheese pair admirably with both.
diversions
Yes, I clean up when I get home, yes, I cook dinner too, sometimes I even leave the house and visit with friends, but then: Netflix.
But Bring Them Up
It should be clear at this point, but is worth repeating — discipline of children is not about changing behavior.
September in Music
Here are some of the albums that came out in September that I have really been enjoying.
In Him They Are Yes
In the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the preacher of God's word can only but say "yes" to the congregation.
A Sanctuary Doctrine for Regular Flourishing
If God, the good and great Creator, is before and under and after everything, every-man, every-deed, everything I do, and everything happening to me, then the little stuff of life matters.
A Unity Prior Would Be A Lie
God is known in the resurrected Messiah.
bye, SCOT.
Scot, I'm sorry that your floor mats were 25% coffee and probably 10% tears.
In Which I Survey the Music I Grew Up With
Being born in '95, my playlist would have consisted largely of VeggieTales songs, but Josh was gracious enough to let us kids to stretch into the '00s. So here we go.
Eating Locust and Wild Honey
"John the Baptist would not be John the Baptist without eating locusts and wild honey. Of course, he would not be John the Baptist either if he did not fulfill his spiritual charge" - Karl Barth
Preparing To Die At Three Years Of Age
God used their strictness and toughness to prune my whiny ass after it was grafted into the Vine via baptism. And I can’t stress enough: This was the 80s. We grew up on the A-Team and GI Joe. We were fluent in tough.
A Cultureless Faith
According to Schindler, the Christian church quietly obeyed the voices of the Enlightenment which told the church which compartment of the modern life it could have a say in; namely the realm of spirituality and personal religion.
Theology in Diverse Community
Calling out people's exegesis is not a kosher thing to do. Calling out the confessions are even more non-kosher.