Top Posts
- ConverZations with PVK
- About
- James Baldwin "How much time do you want, for your 'progress'"?
- Jonathan Pageau book recommends
- Men control access to relationships, women control access to sex
- Annie Dillard Quote on Crash Helmets needed for worship
- Clips from Exodus Seminar on JBP
- Sam Interviews Beau Branson on the Trinity
- Jordan Peterson Custom Suits! for the 12 Rules
- Porn is to Men what Social Media is to Women
Category Cloud
Blog note book review book writing CRC Culture commentary Daily Links and Notes Devotional Reflection How to become a Christian Institutional Church Link Compilations Links Missional On the way to Sunday's sermon Pastoral Identity philosophical reflection Quotations Saved Blog Comments Saved CRCVoices Posts Sermon Illustrations Sermon Outline Sermon Recordings Tech tools theological the self Tweets Uncategorized Understanding the Bible Video Wisdom YouTube Comments to RememberTag Cloud
- #crcstructure
- Abortion
- Acts
- Advent
- Advent 2014
- age of decay
- age to come
- A Secular Age
- Benedict Option
- book of Leviticus
- Calvin College
- Charles Taylor
- Christmas
- City Church San Francisco
- Confessional conversation
- CS Lewis
- David Brooks
- Donald Trump
- Douthat
- Dreher
- Esther
- Exodus
- Genesis
- hell
- Inspire2017
- James
- John Suk
- Jonathan Haidt
- Jordan Peterson
- Katy Perry
- Keller
- Kierkegaard
- King David
- King Saul
- Lent
- Leviticus
- Meme of the week
- Moses
- NT Wright
- Palm Sunday
- Pentecost
- Peter Enns
- Peter Kreeft
- Pope Francis
- Progressive Liberationism
- Racism
- raising of lazarus
- RCA
- reflected self
- relational polarity
- resurrection
- Rob Bell
- Rod Dreher
- Ryan Bell
- Skye Jethani
- SSM
- Steve Jobs
- Synod
- Synod2015
- Synod2016
- the book of exodus
- The Book of Judges
- The book of Kings
- The book of Leviticus
- The Book of Luke
- the book of Numbers
- The Book of Samuel
- the Gospel of John
- The Gospel of Matthew
- The Road to Character
- the self book
- The Ten Commandments
- Tim Keller
- Tom Holland
- transgender
Twitter Feed
- RT @jacobhuneycutt_: I asked Chat GPT to write a contemporary Christian worship song with lyrics that could either be about Jesus or about… 4 hours ago
- This is a terrific conversation. It's part of the canonical @GrimGriz . He tells it as straight as he can in this i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
- .@jordanbpeterson Is on fire right now. The first hour was a lot of the current stuff he's in but the last two hour… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 22 hours ago
Tag Archives: age of decay
“Things Move Fast When You’re Me”
Daniel is back. He did some time in jail and the hospital. Sunday was the first day he saw me since I got back from Synod. I had been holding $400 of his money for him since he’s sure that … Continue reading
Why Those Who Off-Shore Their Treasures Beyond the Age of Decay Inherit the Earth
You Can Survive Almost Any How If You Have a Why Yesterday’s episode of The Walking Dead entitled Self Help nicely illustrated the work of Victor Frankl. We learn Abraham’s backstory and what created his bond with Eugene. It illustrates … Continue reading
Posted in Wisdom
Tagged age of decay, Dallas Willard, The Walking Dead, treasure in heaven, Victor Frankl
Leave a comment
Sculpting our Tents in the Age of Decay for the Hope of Imperishable Glory
Body Image Isn’t Just for Women Anymore Men’s Journal recently did a piece on what Hollywood leading men need to go through to make the cut. Brando never did crunches. Al Pacino didn’t slurp protein shakes. Cary Grant had never … Continue reading
Posted in On the way to Sunday's sermon
Tagged age of decay, Exodus, sacrifice, the book of exodus
2 Comments
When He Speaks Your Name Your Self Won’t End in Decay
Knowing My Father My father passed away last year. Let’s imagine that right after my father’s death someone approached our family and said “I really want to know who Stan Vander Klay was. Would you give me permission to examine … Continue reading
Ruins of Detroit
Pete Meendering loaned me this book of photographs from Detroit. It is a powerful book. Pete of course mentioned the Age of Decay. I found a website with some of the pictures and writing. Amazing.
If Darwin was Right, His Children Will Lose
Through The Cold Eye of Science We are frail, vulnerable creatures orbiting a burning ball of gas at 66,000 miles an hour, rotating on an axis at over a thousand miles an hour, the experience of which we are mostly … Continue reading
Why did God make the world?
Joy, and the chance to be God more than he could with just the Trinity. Wrote this in response to Russ at “The Village” I hope this comes as a response to Russ’ “net negative” essay. To me the answer … Continue reading
The Antithesis
As I continue to ponder Romans 15 in the context of last week’s passage (Romans 13:11-14) I can’t help but think about the antithesis between Paul and Jesus’ teaching and what all of the world presses me to believe. Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Reflection
Tagged age of decay, Chesterton, relational polarity, resurrection
Leave a comment
Fear Energizes Moralism, Desire Energizes Gospel Living
I’m working on Romans 15 for this week’s sermon. I’m struck both by the audacity of Paul’s invitation and the difficulty of following along. The theology is so self-giving, so cruciform, so strenuous. I’m also struck at how deeply moralism … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Reflection, Understanding the Bible
Tagged age of decay, moralism, relational polarity
Leave a comment
Why do I talk about the Age of Decay?
New Testament Time Telling The New Testament tells time in “ages”. There is “the present age” and “the age to come”. Matthew 12:32 (NIV) 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone … Continue reading →