“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved!” (Jeremiah 8:20) Jeremiah is the lamenting prophet. He laments that he has been given a duty to speak to a people who would not listen to God’s words spoken by the prophet. “But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My […]
In his novel ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ (1979) Douglas Adams describes how an alien race programs a computer called Deep Thought to provide the ultimate answer to “Life, the Universe and Everything”. After a multi-million years’ calculation, back came the answer – 42. What is the meaning of life and the universe? […]
When we make decisions we commit to those decisions based upon our principles with due consideration of the consequences of our choices. Choices have consequences. I have made many bad choices in the past. In those choices, I have often “paid the price.” for making those bad choices. Some decisions prove to be very costly […]
You might ask – What does “orthodox” mean? It is a cognate of two greek words – “orthos” which means “straight” and “doxa” which mean “teaching” or “opinion”. An orthodontist is a tooth-straightener. An orthopedic doctor is a child-straightener. He makes sure that a child’s skeleton is straight. Metaphorically, this word “orthos” (straight) means “true”. A […]
One of the major reasons the Orthodox Presbyterian Church was established as a new denomination in the 1930’s was a reaction against modernism. Many of the minsters of that era in the Presbyterian Church USA, the body that this new denomination withdrew from, subscribed to a modernist document called the Auburn Affirmation. The reason the […]