Posts by: David de Bruyn
And the most notable era of Scottish preaching was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they had great power. In fact, the strongest reformational preaching going on in Europe at that time was in Scotland, the great preaching of the Reformation in Scotland. For two centuries it lasted. And Blakey writing in 1888 points out [...]
Continue Reading →I read, with a chuckle, that some of the writers here have been called Beethoven-only, a tongue-in-cheek, but ironically inaccurate nick. Actually, some of us believe Western music began to go wrong with Beethoven, but let me not divert matters. I understand the idea behind the title. Scott has dealt elsewhere with the straw-man argument that [...]
Continue Reading →Dear saint,
You have been reading about orthopathy and ordinate affection, and perhaps it all sounds rather perplexing and intimidating. The controversy around these matters is unnerving and unsettling, and you wish it would go away. It has caused you some real anxiety. You are close to real distress, or worse, to dismissing the whole [...]
Continue Reading →Unless you believe in orthopathy as essential to Christianity, the worship wars are much ado over nothing. They represent the dying thrashes of hide-bound traditionalists, raging against the waning popularity of those songs most familiar to them. They represent the immature clamor of people who do not understand the Romans 14 principle, [...]
Continue Reading →In the past week or so, we’ve seen some of the happenings at Northland expose (at least as far as the Internet can demonstrate) the fault-line that exists in Fundamentalism over music. Of course, the battle over music is by no means limited to Baptist Fundamentalists. It remains a matter of contention in Reformed, [...]
Continue Reading →This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series”Mind Your Manners: Rude to God”
Thus far in this series, we have seen several truths about manners and their relation to worship and worship forms:
All cultures have manners. All cultures recognize the importance of appropriate responses.
The expression of these appropriate responses differs [...]
Continue Reading →A post like this may seem to some like those who call evil good and good evil. Can there be anything edifying in ridicule? Is ridicule an exercise in saying what is true, noble, just, pure, lovely, virtuous and praiseworthy?
Our aversion to ridicule may not be because we side so strongly with [...]
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