Relatively simple

When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second.  When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour.  That’s relativity.

Albert Einstein

Is Keller being a chicken?

I've already expressed my concern regarding Keller's reticence to speak publicly about homosexuality. I came across another video today which makes me wonder - is Keller selling out on the Gospel? Whaddythink?

The wife is the head...

...of the household!

One of the things that Proverbs 31 teaches us is that our language of “head of household” is somewhat of a biblical misnomer because according to Proverbs 31, the wife is the head of the household. The husband is the head of his wife (1 Cor. 11:3, Eph. 5:23), but the wife is the watcher and guardian of the household.

Via: Having two legs

I was a bit suss when I first read that but having just read through Proverbs 31, and today noticing for the first time bits like verse 27, I feel the tectonic plates of my headship theology wobbling. Any thoughts?

Temptation's Modus Operandi

Temptation only works if the possible futures open to you are concealed. Consequences, including those of Judgment Day, must be hidden from view or outright denied. That’s why in humanity’s ancestral sin the serpent told our mother Eve, “You will not surely die” (Gen. 3:4).

Via: Moore to the Point

John Lennon saw through the Myth...

...that overpopulation is destroying us!

The video below is another example of a pagan showing the World that they've understood the Truth better than most and could be used to rebuke the Church of our day about embracing the pernicious lie that the World's population needs to be curbed.

3	Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD:          and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
4	As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;          so are children of the youth.
5	Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:          they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Psalm 127:3-5

If you are one of those who considers people to be a drain on resources and who also thinks that population growth needs to be controlled, then your worldview is both unbiblical and un-Christian. For that, you need to repent. Before you do that, let John and Yoko inform and entertain you...

Is Sprinkling THE mode of baptism?

We've been reading the book of Exodus as part of our evening devotions, helped along by the sagacious and insightful Philip Graham Ryken. Last night, here is what we read as part of his commentary on Exodus 24 verse 6 {And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar.} Ryken comments:

In the old covenant, blood was sprinkled on the people as well as on the altar. Is there any equivalent for this in the new covenant? We enter into a covenant relationship with God simply by trusting in Jesus Christ and in his blood. Salvation comes by grace through faith. But we do get sprinkled, because the outward symbol of belonging to God by covenant is Christian baptism. Baptism is the formal act by whcih we become part of the covenant community. And in baptism we are sprinkled. With blood? No, because Jesus has made the one and only sacrifice for our sins. No other blood can be shed, and no other blood can be sprinkled. But God has given us the sprinkling with water in baptism as a sign of his covenant. This was promised already in the Old Testament, when God promised to send a saviour who would "sprinkle many nations" (Isaiah 52:15). Scholars debate whether the sprinkling Isaiah had in mind involved water or blood. Possibly both. Jesus saved the nations through the blood he sprinkled on the cross, and the nations are joined to God in covenant through the sprinkling of water baptism.

So, is sprinkling the mode of baptism? Discuss.

"Every Christian festival condemns the devil...

but this one especially" said John Chrysostom (c.347-407). Which festival?