The Bittersweetness of Advent & Genesis 3

"Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet. The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ." - Thomas Watson in The Doctrine of Repentance This Advent season our church has been tasting the bitterness of the beginnings of sin in Genesis 3. Why all this focus on the …

The Most Wonderful Time

Don’t you just hate to wait?  If you do, then you’re American through and through.  We Americans seem to have little patience for waiting. Can you remember life without microwave ovens? We have acquired a distaste for delay. Why waste all that time at the video store when you can get your movies “On Demand”? …

Treating Post-Christmas Blahs

Jon Bloom at the Desiring God Blog has this to say: It's just like God to let the glitter and flash of the celebrations (even in his honor) to pass and then to come to us in the quiet, even melancholic void they leave. Because often that's when we are most likely to understand the …

Hearing and Believing the Words We Sing

My friend Elizabeth wants us to hear and believe the words we're singing this Christmas: In these next days, many of us will join to sing familiar carols and hymns, such as "Hark the Herald" (for short). Perhaps you, like me and my kids, began to listen to the All-Christmas stations the day after Thanksgiving. …