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Nov 2019
Last Sunday I brought my considerations of the Lord’s Day to a conclusion by noting that Sunday observance is not just a religious issue, but a social justice issue, indeed the key issue for true social justice. I wrote: “Social justice means nothing if it does not involve the right order of society; if social justice is reduced to merely economic issues (or environmental issues) it completely misses the larger question of the right order of society. A rightly ordered society would put the observance of Sunday first and the good of......
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November 01, 2019
The Demise of the Lord’s Day
Last week I wrote that we will learn better to keep the Lord’s day if we think of it more as a day dedicated to God’s work, to doing his will, rather than to our...
October 18, 2019
From the Sabbath to the Lord’s Day
The last two Sundays I have been writing about the meaning of God’s rest on the seventh day and the sanctification of the seventh day. All this leads now to a question: God commanded, Remember...
October 11, 2019
The Seventh Day and the Sacrifice of Praise
Last Sunday I began writing about the meaning of God’s rest on the seventh day. I concluded with these words, “True rest is not the mere absence of motion or change, but even more involves...
October 04, 2019
The Seventh Day: God’s rest and our rest in God
Thus the heavens and the earth and all their array were completed. Since on the seventh day God was finished with the work he had been doing, he rested on the seventh day from all...
September 27, 2019
The seventh day and the ideology of six days
God completed his work of creation after six days, but the story does not stop there. If we understand the account of creation rightly the six days will point us to the seventh day, and...
September 20, 2019
Created in the Image of God
The high point of the first six days, we could say, is the creation of man, male and female, in the image of God, but the special status of man has been under an intense...
August 30, 2019
Genesis and Environmentalism: The Special Status of Man under Attack
The first main thing to consider in the Genesis narrative of creation is the simple fact of creation and the meaning of the distinction of things and their goodness. I have written about that during...
August 23, 2019
Creation and the Origin of Evil
I have been writing about the account of creation given in the first chapter of Genesis. Today, I plan to address some subtleties that will expose some common errors and misconceptions of our own day....
August 16, 2019
The distinction and goodness of created things
Last Sunday, continuing the theme of faith and science, I began writing about the meaning of the 1st chapter of Genesis. This brief passage is one of the most important and profound writings in the...