All the recent travel seems to have taken its toll. I’m very under the weather with a fever, cough and and a nose running so much it could finish the Boston marathon.
Back soon, I hope. In the meantime, I enjoyed this ‘career day’ breakdown of the Pastor’s role over at StillTruth.
Archive for November, 2006
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Posted in Excuses, Pastors on November 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Home again
Posted in Australia, Church Discipline, Forgiveness, Repentance on November 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Home again – and just in time for Thanksgiving. Mostly this year, my thankfulness revolved around the fact that I had one day in which to overcome the jetlag before I headed back to work today. Even now, my brain is sluggish and thoughts don’t come to easily. I suppose that 10,000 miles and 40 [...]
Paying the Piper
Posted in Australia, Church Discipline on November 13, 2006 | 2 Comments »
This Wednesday afternoon sees me board an international flight from Nebraska, USA to Victoria, Australia. The reason? Church discipline. Without going into gory detail in an orgiastic feasting on sin thinly disguised as a rehearsal of God’s grace, suffice it to say that some 10 years ago I left the church. Not in a nice way, [...]
Rebuilding the Temple.
Posted in 1 Kings 8, Temple on November 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
1 Kings 8
As a journeying Presbyterian, the exact nature and role of Israel is something that has interested me, but never been something that I have paid tremendous attention to. To be honest, the process of mortification usually left me drained so much that I never particularly wanted to bother with anything else. The mortification [...]
What is Presbyterianism? Conclusion
Posted in History, Hodge, Presbyterian, Reformed on November 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
We have now completed our exposition of Presbyterianism. It must strike every one that it is no device of man. It is not an external framework, having no connection with the inward life of the Church. It is a real growth. It is the outward expression of the inward law of the Church’s being. [...]
Law & Liberty
Posted in 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith, Grace, Law, Liberty, Theonomy on November 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure how it works for anyone else, but it seems to me that whenever I change cars, I leave the dealership convinced I have made a unique choice. Or, if not a unique choice, one of the less popular models available. It does not take very long to disabuse me of that notion, [...]
What is Presbyterianism? Pt VII
Posted in History, Hodge, Presbyterian, Reformed on November 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
III. As then presbyters are all of the same rank, and as they exercise their power in the government of the Church, in connection with the people, or their representatives, this of necessity gives rise to Sessions in our individual congregations, and to Presbyteries, Synods, and Assemblies, for the exercise of more extended jurisdiction. This [...]
Words well said
Posted in Ted Haggard, Tim Challies on November 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There is no real addition to be made, in my mind, to the excellent article on the tragedy of Ted Haggard. Go, read!
http://www.challies.com/archives/002181.php
This is why you should be reading Tim Challies. Even on Saturdays.
How I Wish…
Posted in Music, Omaha, Pink Floyd, Symphony on November 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What to do… I love music. I saw on a blog somewhere the other day an answer to the question “What is your favorite kind of music?” The response? “That’s like making me chose my favorite child!” Great answer!
Amongst the music I appreciate is classical music. I don’t KNOW anything about it (despite having thumbed [...]
What is Presbyterianism? Pt VI
Posted in Hodge, Presbyterian, Reformed on November 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
2. But secondly, it is admitted that there were, during the apostolic age, officers of a higher grade than presbyters, viz: apostles and prophets. The latter, it is conceded, were temporary. The only question, therefore, relates to the apostles. Prelatists admit that there is no permanent class or grade of church officers intermediate between apostles [...]
