The internet gives us a false omniscience, presenting everything from everywhere to everyone at any time. But we are not God. We were not designed for omniscience. Not even the digital imitation. Yet here it is. Everything. All the time. I can listen to the greatest performances of Mozart, ponder over the most beautiful artwork …
AUTHOR The superscription for the whole book is Song of Songs 1:1: "The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's." That is why the book is often called the Song of Solomon. Indeed, most evangelical commentators argue for Solomon as the author. A popular speculation throughout church history is that Solomon wrote Song of Songs in …
The New Year is here. Have you already started a new devotional? A devotional is book of sort, often daily, readings. Many have 365 readings for the whole year. They are usually written to be relatable and encouraging. The more theologically robust ones typically reflect on a particular verse or passage of Scripture, sometimes encouraging …
When it comes to sermon preparation, pastors often think of sermons primarily as individual units of study or, perhaps more broadly, as parts of a sermon series, often on a particular topic or book of Scripture. Of course, that is a proper impulse. Each sermon must stand on its own. You never know who will …
Each December 31st I write this post, looking back on the previous year and forward to the new. As you may have noticed, 2025 was quite similar to 2024 here: my writing was fairly sparse. There were two main reasons. First, instead of using my free time to write, I have been devoting it to …
I recently finished reading War and Peace (here is a great three-volume edition), which I picked up this year after coming across a full set of The Great Books of the Western World at a bookstore. It was the original 54-volumed edition and in great condition. So, we bought it. I began looking at reading …
Why do we return to Greek literature, ideas, and culture again and again? I ask this as someone who is happily rooted in classical Christian education, which is an education grounded in the Greco-Roman tradition but submitted to a Christian worldview, but everyone who is lives in the Western world is a cultural offspring of …
It’s time once again to reflect on the past year, and as always, here is my list of my ten favorite books (or, eleven, since I always include an honorable mention). This year was a little unusual for me. I read fewer books than normal, completing only twenty. But at the same time, this ended …
Today is the official start of Advent, which we love to celebrate in our home. Now, I have already written a post about whether or not you should observe the liturgical calendar (Advent, Lent, etc.), and I also recently discussed it again in my sermon on Leviticus 23. You can read both of those to …
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In the Great Commission, our Lord commanded us: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of …
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