How can you teach your child to love history?
How can you get your child to love history? Or, better stated, how can you teach your child to love history? We, as parents, are responsible for… Read More »How can you teach your child to love history?
Articles
Browse articles on various topics below.
Children and Family: A New Emphasis on this Site
Conservative Christians desire to conserve something–namely, fully-orbed biblical Christianity. To conserve something implies passing it to the next generation. For this reason, Conservative Christians are… Read More »Children and Family: A New Emphasis on this Site
Lewis, liturgy as dance, and the regulative principle
Some time ago, I posted a link here to one of my favorite quotes from the eminently quotable C. S. Lewis. Lewis offers a comparison between… Read More »Lewis, liturgy as dance, and the regulative principle
Hebrew worship and the surrounding culture
One of the more important aspects of studying the worship of Israel is to wrestle through the relationship between Israel’s worship culture and that of… Read More »Hebrew worship and the surrounding culture
The Lord’s Day, part 2
The phrase “the Lord’s Day” is used only one time in the Scriptures, and it comes in the final book of the New Testament. In… Read More »The Lord’s Day, part 2
Is there a biblical standard for judging beauty?
Imagine I tell my wife that I want to take her to a special place for our anniversary. We arrange for a babysitter for our… Read More »Is there a biblical standard for judging beauty?
A Response to Pastor Kevin Hobi
The two great calamities feared by every author are being ignored and being misrepresented. Of these two, most see the first as the greater calamity.… Read More »A Response to Pastor Kevin Hobi
What music does
In my last post, I had shared a brief argument that, at least for me, undergirds my conservatism in worship, without forsaking the principle of sola… Read More »What music does
Is culture the same as race?
The issue of culture is always of interest to those involved with worship for one obvious reason–the “cultural” aspects of worship, primarily music, poetry, and… Read More »Is culture the same as race?
The Lord’s Day, part 1
We live in a busy world. With technological advances one would think that our lives would be less hectic. However, the opposite seems to be… Read More »The Lord’s Day, part 1
Aesthetic correspondence
Conservative evangelicals admirably repudiate emergent leaders who argue that both content and form must be contextualized; evangelicals insist that since God’s Word is inspired and… Read More »Aesthetic correspondence
A Learned Gentleman
My students are sometimes surprised (and, to be truthful, sometimes encouraged) to learn that I failed Greek the first time I took it. Passing the… Read More »A Learned Gentleman
Limiting How We Apply the Regulative Principle
To admit a worship practice as a biblically-prescribed New Testament worship element, the Regulative Principle would seek to ensure that such a practice is unequivocally… Read More »Limiting How We Apply the Regulative Principle
Accepting sola scriptura and arguing musical style
This is a little intro piece that I’ve written for some friends who have asked for a basic defense of musical conservatism. It hardly gets… Read More »Accepting sola scriptura and arguing musical style
The Lord is my . . . cattle-driver?
There is a lot of talk about contextualizing biblical truth these days. Of course, there is always a need for translation from language to language… Read More »The Lord is my . . . cattle-driver?
Present Decisions Have Lasting Consequences
There is much to learn from the examples of the Kings in Israelite history. Though 2 Chronicles is not often the book of choice when… Read More »Present Decisions Have Lasting Consequences
Crown Him With Many Crowns
The principal figure of the book of Revelation is the Lamb. He is introduced in Revelation 5, where the seven-sealed scroll represents the outpouring of… Read More »Crown Him With Many Crowns
Selecting Hymns That Are Good
When we select the songs and hymns for corporate worship, there are plenty of weak, cowardly, and even evil reasons to motivate our choices: sheer… Read More »Selecting Hymns That Are Good
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I agree with Peter Leithart—real men read Jane Austen. It’s too bad I didn’t know this before I became a man. It wasn’t until after… Read More »Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Satisfaction of God’s Wrath in Christian Hymnody
There has been quite a lot of noise in the blogosphere lately over a decision by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to reject Getty and Townend’s… Read More »Satisfaction of God’s Wrath in Christian Hymnody