What makes righteous judgement righteous?
Jesus said, “My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent...
Music lessons a drag?
Here is why you should keep going. Kids, now that you have watched, don’t be intimidated, be inspired. Remember...
A Lord’s Day prayer
How lovely is your tabernacle, O LORD of host. Our souls long for your courts, and our hearts cry out for you, O...
The People – the most successful tyranny the world has ever known.
Secularists have successfully equated the thought of a Christian society with oppression. Yet in the Western struggle...
Why Christianity insists on holidays like Christmas.
[R]eligion always insists on special days like Christmas, while philosophy always tends to despise them. Religion is...
What is “Reformed”? Part 3.
A conversation with Dr. Casey Christopher and Pastor Alan Burrow Share and...
What is “Reformed”? Part 2.
A conversation with Dr. Casey Christopher and Pastor Alan Burrow Share and...
Sabbath prayer.
O God our Father, we are glad in your presence, and rejoice before you. We extol you who rides upon the clouds; we...
Facebook, Twitter, and post-modern lightness of being.
There is a “tortoise and hare” pattern between believers and unbelievers when it comes to technology.* It first...
Sabbath prayer.
We praise you, O God our Father, for you have sent your Son to be our brother and our Savior and our King. He has...
Self-pity.
Feeling sorry for ourselves feels so good. That’s why we love it. But like the boy who loved to wet his pants because...
What is “Reformed”?
What is “Reformed”? Part 1 A conversation with Dr. Casey Christopher and Pastor Alan Burrow Share and...
Self-pity
A man may quite reasonably regard himself as a jolly good fellow. He may at the same time quite consistently regard...
Sabbath prayer.
God our Father, we worship and thank you, for you are our refuge and our strength. You are our help in times of...
Politics.
The more I watch politicians, the more I realize that politics is for those who aren’t content to show their...
The old and new humility.
[T]he old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility...
Humility, a practical virtue.
Humility is so practical a virtue that men think it must be a vice. Humility is so successful that it is mistaken...
It is always the secure who are humble.
[T]he essence of Christianity was in a literal sense the New Testament — a covenant with God which opened to...
The instinct of mankind against pride.
[T]he instinct of mankind against pride, as the ultimate human evil, can be proved from the most prosaic details or...
Sabbath prayer
We praise you, O God our Father, for you have inclined your heart to us; you have brought us up out of the pit, out...
Thanksgiving is the thermometer of the heart.
It was apparent from the size of the crowd and the dignitaries present that the deceased had been a prominent man....
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the...
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man’s actions, but not hate the bad...
Sin proceeds in one direction, but defilement is a two-way street.
C.S. Lewis said that “good and evil both increase at compound interest.”* He did not attach that insight...
The way to love anything.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles, p. 56, quoted in...
Love your neighbor
The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same...
When it comes to love, being like God and unlike God are both measures of o...
God’s pure love, his Gift Love born free of all need, is not something we can return to him, for there is nothing...
Natural affection, a stronger angel and a fiercer devil.
There’s something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite...
Perfect love casts out fear, but so do several other things.
Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things — ignorance, alcohol, passion,...
Don’t waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighb...
The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your...
Liquid Life
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson, On Prudence....
He made bad and good rulers very much alike.
Otto Scott on Machiavelli, who was in many ways the father of modern politics: Machiavelli rationalized despotism,...
The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with you.
The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with you. He will inform you of your ignorance; he will not enlighten...
They cannot convince the mind, but they do cloud it.
Just as it is the latest fad [of Freudian psychoanalysis] to prove that everything is sexual, so it was the last fad...
Know-it-all agnostics
Speaking of Darwin, Marx, and Freud, G.K. Chesterton quipped: It is yet another mark of this sort of agnostic that he...
Tossing out Darwin, Marx, and Freud
As noted in a previous post, Chesterton said our real task today is uneducating the educated. We could make a good...
Uneducating the educated
[Our primary public duty] is not to educate the uneducated but to uneducate the educated. G.K. Chesterton, The...
Unenthusiastic educators
It is rare to come across anyone enthusiastic for our system of elementary instruction. It is not common to find...
Dealing with nonsense
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when...
God works with submission, and that works for me.
God is opposed to the proud, but He gives grace to the humble. Submit therefore to God. –James 4.6b-7a. If...
Prayer for Lord’s Day worship
We praise you, O LORD; we will sing praises to you all the days of our life. We do not trust in princes, nor in the...
The parent, the person in charge of education
In the case of comparative poverty, which is the common lot of mankind, we come back to a general parental...
Lord’s Day Prayer
I called on the Lord in my distress; the Lord answered me and said me and abroad place. The Lord is on my side; I...
Confession for Lord’s Day Worship
Call to confession: The Lord preserves all who love him. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call...
Prayer for Lord’s Day Worship
Blessed are you, O God. You are our rock. You are our lovingkindness. You are our fortress, our high tower, and...
Confession for Lord’s Day Worship
All: Heavenly Father, we would come to you with the penitence of the prodigal son, confessing that we have sinned...
Properly conducted, a person’s education makes him or her a better Ch...
In Milton’s view, education is not what people so often reduce it to — completing a certain number of...
Lord’s Day Prayer
Great God and Father, let our prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of our hands as the evening...
Lord’s Day Confession
All: Heavenly Father, You have commanded us to do everything, whether in word or in deed, in the name of the Lord...
The school is only preparation for the home
Just now there is a tendency to forget that the school is only a preparation for the home, and not the home a mere...
About the proprietor
Christian, husband, father, pastor, grandfather (How'd that happen?), adjunct professor, sometime composer, former lawyer, former military, former Floridian turned Idahoan, former basketballer turned golfer—that about sums it up. —Alan Burrow
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