The Sovereignty of God

Dealing with the Devil

Or, How Not to Gain the World

Luke 4:5-8

The Lordship of Christ Over Every Square Inch (Pt 1)

Or, Sphere Sovereignty, Ordered Loves, and the Nature of Reality

Colossians 3:23-24

The Crooked Will Be Saved (Pt 1)

Or, When the Word of God Came to John

Luke 3:1-9

When History Hinged

Or, The Birth of Our Lord

Luke 2:1-7

Magnify the Lord

Or, Blessed Is She Who Believed

Luke 1:39-56

Joy on Schedule

Or, Setting Ourselves Reminders to Trust in the Lord

Esther 9:20-10:3

A Fight for Their Lives

Or, The Very Day to the Contrary

Esther 9:1-19

Light and Gladness

Or, The Art of the Decree

Esther 8:1-17

A Foe and Enemy

Or, Haman Hangs Himself

Esther 7:1-10

Little Did He Know

Or, Haman's Special Day

Esther 6:1-14

Providential Nerve

Or, Letting the Wicked Man Dig His Pit

Esther 5:1-14

Consecrated Agency

Or, For Such a Time as This

Esther 4:1-17

Lots of Destruction

Or, A One-man Genocidal Lobby

Esther 2:19-3:15

The Royal Crown

Or, Fit to Please a King

Esther 2:1-18

Vast Contempt

Or, The Law of Royal Vanity

Esther 1:13-22

Ballyhoo and Banquets

Or, Setting Up a Story of Providence

Esther 1:1-12

Corporate Confession (Pt 2)

Or, When Fasting Follows Feasting

Nehemiah 9:6-37

Faith Works

Selected Scriptures

It's in Your Hands

Or, The Secretary’s Delegated Powers for Whatever

Ezra 7:11-28

Allegiance and Advantages (Pt 2)

Or, To Build and Prosper Under the Eye of God

Ezra 6:1-22

Allegiance and Advantages (Pt 1)

Or, To Build and Prosper Under the Eye of God

Ezra 5:1-17

Cease and Discouraged

Or, The Continuity of Conflict

Ezra 4:1-24

Stirred Up

Or, God Moves in Political Ways

Ezra 1:1-11

For Such a Time as This

Or, The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength

Ezra 1:1

Dissident Joy

Or, When Faith Won't Crash

Habakkuk 3:16-19

A Framework of Faith

Or, The Just Shall Sing Psalms

Habakkuk 3:1-15

Fuel for the Fire

Or, The Just Shall Learn to Taunt

Habakkuk 2:6-20

Faith Enfleshed

Or, The Just Shall Live in Tension

Habakkuk 2:2-5

A Proper Complaint

Or, Clear Theology for a Disordered World

Habakkuk 1:12-2:1

Ruin Not Revival

Or, The Surprising Side of History

Habakkuk 1:5-11

A Prophetic Complaint

Or, When Justice Comes Out Crooked

Habakkuk 1:1-4

There Will Be Strength

Or, He Only Is My Rock

Romans 16:21-27

The Worldview King

Or, He Who Lifts Up Our Souls

Psalm 24:1-10

We Are the Lord's

Or, On Living, Dying, and Always Making Judgments

Romans 14:5-12

The Powers That Be (Pt 4)

Or, God’s Rules for Submissive and Tax-Paying Citizens

Romans 13:1-7

The Powers That Be (Pt 2)

Or, God’s Rules for Submissive and Tax-Paying Citizens

Romans 13:1-7

The Powers That Be (Pt 1)

Or, God’s Rules for Submissive and Tax-Paying Citizens

Romans 13:1-7

From-Through-To Him

Or, Who Is Like the Lord Our God?

Romans 11:33-36

Our Declaration of Dependence

Or, Are we really feasting?

Selected

Covenant Mercy

Or, All Israel Will Be Saved

Romans 11:25-32

Root and Branches (Pt 1)

Or, Conditional Arguments Against Gentile Arrogance

Romans 11:16-24

A Jealousable Argument (Pt 2)

Or, The Blessed Option

Romans 11:11-15

A Jealousable Argument (Pt 1)

Or, The Blessed Option

Romans 11:11-15

Israel's Story

Or, Not All Are Lost

Romans 11:1-10

Hands Held Out

Or, How Israel Fulfilled Prophecy by Refusing to Believe It

Romans 10:18-21

The Lord of All (Pt 2)

Or, Our Confession of Faith

Romans 10:5-13

Vessels of Mercy (Pt 3)

Or, When Pots Talk Back

Romans 9:19-23

Vessels of Mercy (Pt 2)

Or, When Pots Talk Back

Romans 9:19-23

Vessels of Mercy (Pt 1)

Or, When Pots Talk Back

Romans 9:19-23

The Glory of Election (Pt 2)

Or, God’s Celebration of God’s Sovereignty

Romans 9:14-18

The Glory of Election (Pt 1)

Or, God’s Celebration of God’s Sovereignty

Romans 9:14-18

Covenant Confidence

Or, Paul’s Belief in God’s Sovereign Election

Romans 9:6-13

If God Is for Us (Pt 2)

Or, The Inseparable Love That Makes Unconquerable Sheep

Romans 8:35-39

Helps for Hope

Or, The Good of God’s Purpose

Romans 8:26-30

In Your Strength

Or, Blessed to Fight Another Day

Psalm 21:1-13

Church vs. Chaff

Or, What the Zeal of the Lord Will Do

2 Kings 19:30-31

Surprising Death

Or, The Terminal Move That Changed Everything

1 Corinthians 2:8-9

Heirs of Faith

Or, The God Who Brings His Promise to Life

Romans 4:13-17

Strength and Song

Or, Giving Thanks Always and for Everything

Selected Scriptures

God’s Truth Aboundeth Still

Or, Can Any Good Come from Evil?

Romans 3:5-8

Our Eyes Are on You

Or, The Liturgy of Seeking the Lord

2 Chronicles 20:1-30

The Magnificat

Or, A Christmas Call to Praise

Luke 1:44–55

Treasuring Up Wrath

Or, Ambition, (Affliction), and Accurate Accounts

Romans 2:5-11

A Dominion of Gift

Or, The Empire Disrupting Power of Romans

Romans 5:21

What You Must Do

Or, The Collision between Faith and “Forced” Vaccinations

Selected Scriptures

The Divine Council

Or, The Sons of God, the Nephilim, the Giants, and the Watchers

Psalm 82

The Day of Judgment

Or, Final Condemnation for the Dead and Death

Revelation 20:11-15

The Last Battle

Or, A Rebellion to Learn From

Revelation 20:7-10

Not About Bunkers

Or, A Thousand Millennial Misunderstandings

Revelation 20:1-6

Dashed to Pieces

Or, The Great Supper of Flesh and the First into the Lake of Fire

Revelation 19:17-21

Heaven's Hallelujah

Or, Praise to the Blood Avenger

Revelation 19:1-5

Not At All Any More

Or, When Silence Falls on the Great City

Revelation 18:21-24

Kuyperian Sexuality

Or, Pronouns Are Not a Preference

Selected

The Path of Destruction

Or, Love to Hate and Raised to Fall

Revelation 17:7-18

The Great Remembrance

Or, Blasphemy Such as There Has Never Been

Revelation 16:10-21

Balanced Judgment

Or, Par for the Curse

Revelation 16:1-9

Great and Marvelous

Or, The Final Strains of Justice

Revelation 15:1-8

Deep and Wide

Or, The Great Winepress of Wrath

Revelation 14:14-20

The Hour of Judgment

Or, The Draught of God’s Undiluted Wrath

Revelation 14:6-13

Standing with the Lamb

Or, Let the Redeemed of the Lord Sing So

Revelation 14:1-5

It's a Given

Or, Why the Saints Will Endure the Beast

Revelation 13:5-10

A Beastly Parody

Or, The Great Wannabe

Revelation 13:1-4

Our Ancient and Angry Foe (Pt 3)

Or, Why Is All of This Happening?

Revelation 12:13-17

Our Ancient and Angry Foe (Pt 2)

Or, Why Is All of This Happening?

Revelation 12:7-12

Our Ancient and Angry Foe (Pt 1)

Or, Why Is All of This Happening?

Revelation 12:1-6

The Kingdom of Our Lord

Or, Blessed Are All Those Who Rejoice in His Reign

Revelation 11:15-19

Powerful Testimony (Pt 1)

Or, Being on the Wrong Side of Prophecy

Revelation 11:1-14

On Sea and On Land

Or, The Bittersweet Little Scroll

Revelation 10:1-11

A Time to Kill

Or, Unrepentant and It Feels So Fine

Revelation 9:13-21

Straight from the Pit

Or, The First Woe When Death Can’t Be Caught

Revelation 8:13-9:12

The Master's Trumpets

Or, The Blasts of Blood, Burning, and Bitterness

Revelation 8:6-12

The Master's Trumpets

Or, The Blasts of Blood, Burning, and Bitterness

Revelation 8:6-12

Visionary Math

Or, The Number and Nature of the Sealed

Revelation 7:1-8

Visionary Math

Or, The Number and Nature of the Sealed

Revelation 7:1-8

If the Foundations Are Destroyed

Or, The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is the Lord Himself

Psalm 11:1-7

Proper and Just

Or, Following and Influencing the Man

Ecclesiastes 8:1-9

Waiting Out Whirlwinds

Or, Solomon’s Tips for Establishing Your House in a Crisis

Proverbs 10:25

If Need Require

Or, A Test for Exiles

1 Peter 1:6-7

How Long?

Or, When the Vengeance of the Lord Is Ripe

Revelation 6:9-11

Taking Peace from Earth

Or, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Revelation 6:1-8

O Rulers of the Earth

Or, The Politics of Worship

Psalm 2:1-12

Kuyperianism and the Future

Selected

Worthy Is the Lamb (Pt 1)

Or, Worship of Him Who Opens the Scroll

Revelation 5:1-5

Worthy Is the Lamb (Pt 1)

Or, Worship of Him Who Opens the Scroll

Revelation 5:1-5

Righteous Ridicule

Or, What Are You Laughing At?

Psalm 52:1-9

Around the Throne (Pt 2)

Or, Worship of Him Who Holds the Scroll

Revelation 4:6b-11

Around the Throne (Pt 1)

Or, Worship of Him Who Holds the Scroll

Revelation 4:1-6a

Centers and Circumferences

Or, The Genus of Kuyperianism

Selected

Exiled into the Hand of God

Or, Sinners in the Hand of a Good God

Selected Scriptures

Devastation or Salvation?

Zechariah 12:1-5

Lopsided Trust

Or, The Liturgy of Preparation

Psalm 20:1-9

Blessed Be My Rock (Pt 2)

Or, Exalting in the God of Deliverance

Psalm 18:20-50

Blessed Be My Rock (Pt 1)

Or, Exalting in the God of Deliverance

Psalm 18:1-19

The Body That Is to Be

Or, A Consideration of God’s (Re)Creative Flair

1 Corinthians 15:35-41

The Message Manifested

Or, Reminders of the Many Resurrection Witnesses

1 Corinthians 15:5-11

Liturgical Offense

Or, Worship Is Not for the Natural of Heart

2 Corinthians 2:15-16

Belonging to the Body

Or, Reminders to the Discontent Members

1 Corinthians 12:12-20

Temptation Types (Pt 2)

Or, Dangerous Lusts of the Blessed

1 Corinthians 10:11-13

A Better Calling

Or, How Salvation Transposes Our Earthly Callings

1 Corinthians 7:17-24

Remembering It's Not Your Money

Selected Scriptures

Rubbish Theater

Or, Who Died and Made You Kings?

1 Corinthians 4:6-13

God Gives Growth

Or, The Lord of the Harvest and His Laborers

1 Corinthians 3:5-9

Little Did They Know

Or, The World-Upsetting, Glory-Making, Mind-Bending, Freely-Given Wisdom of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-13

Riches for the World

Or, What is a Dispensationalist? (Part 3)

Selected Scriptures

This Fixed Order

Or, What is a Dispensationalist? (Part 2)

Selected Scriptures

The Ends of the Theology Department

Or, What is a Kuyperian? (Part 2)

Selected Scriptures

Meant for Good

Or, Joseph’s Place in God’s Plan for Israel

Genesis 50:1-26

In Days to Come

Or, Jacob’s Prophetic Blessings on His Twelve Tribes

Genesis 49:1-33

A Byword of Blessing

Or, Jacob Gave Joseph Far More Than He Could See

Genesis 48:1-22

You Have Saved Our Lives

Or, How Joseph Brought Blessing to All the Land of Egypt

Genesis 47:1-31

Making a Great Nation

Or, The Start of Israel’s Sojourn in Egypt

Genesis 46:1-34

God Sent Me Before You

Or, Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers

Genesis 45:1-28

The Potency of God and the Doctrine of Divine Election

Selected Scriptures

Coming to Terms

Or, Joseph’s Brothers Are at His Mercy

Genesis 43:1-34

There Comes a Reckoning

Or, When Joseph’s Brothers Could Ignore Their Sin No More

Genesis 42:1-38

John Calvin and A Profounder Sense of God

Or, The Tectonic Theology of John Calvin

Selected Scriptures

Fixed by God (Pt 2)

Or, Joseph’s Rise from Prisoner to Prime Minister

Genesis 41:37-57

A Profounder Sense of God

Or, The Tectonic Theology of John Calvin

Selected Scriptures

Fixed by God (Pt 1)

Or, Joseph’s Rise from Prisoner to Prime Minister

Genesis 41:1-36

The Exceptional Faithfulness of John Knox

Selected Scriptures

A Matter of Interpretation

Or, A Place Where Dreams Come True

Genesis 40:1-23

Unlikely Success

Or, Joseph’s Favor in the Sight of His Lord

Genesis 39:1-23

Interrelated Interruptions

Or, How Tamar Got Judah’s Goat After All

Genesis 38:1-30

Evil Intentions

Or, Hate Is Thicker Than Blood

Genesis 37:2-36

A Land Away

Or, Your Father Was an Edomite

Genesis 36:1-37:1

Ups and Downs

Or, Jacob’s Return to the God of Bethel

Genesis 35:1-29

Finding Favor

Or, Jacob and Esau’s Short Reunion

Genesis 33:1-20

Facing His Fear

Or, Jacob Wrestles with God

Genesis 32:1-32

Stealing Away (Pt 2)

Or, When the Putter-On Acts Put Upon

Genesis 31:36-55

Stealing Away (Pt 1)

Or, When the Putter-On Acts Put Upon

Genesis 31:1-35

Spotting Grace

Or, Provision for Jacob’s Household

Genesis 30:25-43

Fruit of the Wombs

Or, A Race of Envy

Genesis 29:31-30:24

More Than He Bargained For

And, More Courtship Cliches

Genesis 29:1-30

Jacob's Special Place

Or, God’s Presence and Promise in Exile

Genesis 28:10-22

Mixed Intentions (Pt 2)

Or, Four Deceiving Angles on Divine Blessing

Genesis 27:30-28:9

Mixed Intentions (Pt 1)

Or, Four Deceiving Angles on Divine Blessing

Genesis 27:1-29

Blessings in Context

Or, How Grace Enables Our Dependence Rather Than Removes Our Need for It

Genesis 26:1-35

Defining Choices

Or, Divine Election, Parental Favoritism, Sibling Rivalry, and Personal Sin

Genesis 25:19-34

Generations to Come

Or, Closing the Book on Abraham

Genesis 25:1-18

A Promising Match (Pt 1)

Or, The Thing Has Come from the Lord

Genesis 24:1-28

The Making of a Calvinist

Genesis 50:20

God Will Provide

Or, A Test of Faith That Is No Laughing Matter

Genesis 22:1-24

A Time to Laugh

Or, Conflicts of Interest When Things Were Going Well

Genesis 21:1-34

Double Jeopardy

Or, How God Providentially Protected a Prophet from a King and a King by a Prophet

Genesis 20:1-18

Divine Impossibilities

Or, The Unquestionable Power and Justice of the Lord

Genesis 18:1-33

Against All Odds

Nehemiah 1-6

Children of Promise

Or, The Sign and Son of the Covenant

Genesis 17:9-27

An Everlasting Covenant

Or, Guarantees from God Almighty

Genesis 17:1-8

Belief Is Justified

Or, Faith in the Sovereign Future-Maker

Genesis 15:1-21

Hail the Conquering Hero

Or, Battle Done Is Only Half Begun

Genesis 14:17-24

That's a Rout

Or, When Kings Can’t Hold Their Own

Genesis 14:1-16

Lift Up Your Eyes

Or, What You Get by Not Being Grabby

Genesis 13:1-18

God's Display of God in Election (Pt 2)

Romans 9:19-23

God's Display of God in Election (Pt 1)

Romans 9:14-18

Choosing a Father

Or, The Change from Primeval to Patriarchal History

Genesis 11:10-32

That Hideous Strength (Pt 2)

Or, The Confusing Catastrophe of Men Making Men in Their Own Image

Genesis 11:1-9

That Hideous Strength (Pt 1)

Or, The Confusing Catastrophe of Men Making Men in Their Own Image

Genesis 11:1-9

National Headwaters (Pt 2)

Or, Streams of Civilization after the Flood

Genesis 10:21-32

God Is Sovereign

Selected Scriptures

Worship in Exile

Psalm 61

National Headwaters (Pt 1)

Or, Streams of Civilization after the Flood

Genesis 10:1-20

Life Givens

Or, Blessing, Blood, and Barbecue

Genesis 9:1-7

The Waters Prevailed

Or, A Flood of Reasons for World-Wide Disaster

Genesis 7:17-24

Training for War

Or, Psalm 127 and Our Cultural Conflict

Psalm 127

The Rain Came Down

Or, The Floods Came Up

Genesis 7:1-16

Everything Is Ruined

Or, All That God Commanded

Genesis 6:9-22

Multiplication Problems (Pt 2)

Or, Depravity of Mythic Proportions

Genesis 6:1-8

The Roots of Relief (Pt 1)

Or, Life and Death Before the Flood

Genesis 5:1-32

An Ancient Song of Dust and Sky

Or, Exulting in God’s Epic Salvation

Psalm 68

Fighting the Good Fight (Pt 2)

Or, How to Correct Others in a Culture of Lies and Self-Love

2 Timothy 2:22-26

Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Corruption

Or, The Wisdom of Singing about Fools

Psalm 14:1-7

The Original Sin (Pt 2)

Or, Man's Fall into the Estate of Misery

Genesis 3:1-7

Filling the Void

Or, Signs, Seasons, and Swarms of Life

Genesis 1:14-25

Let There Be Light

Or, The Word about When Earth Began to Take Shape

Genesis 1:3-13

In the Beginning

Or, The Grand Opening

Genesis 1:1-2

One Story to Rule Them All (Pt 2)

Or, Not Your Grandma's Flannelgraph

Genesis

Framing a Genration (Pt 2)

Or, Reasons for Studying Genesis

Genesis 1:1

Not Going Anywhere

And, Standing Firm When the Foundations Are Under Attack

Psalm 11:1-7

God's Eternal Purpose and Election

Selected Scriptures

From Where God Sits

Or, Our Hope in His Righteous Judgment

Psalm 9:1-20

Every Disciple's Destiny

Or, Glorifying God When Things Get Out of Hand

John 21:18-23

The Problem of Evil

Or, The REAL Problem of Little Faith

Selected Scriptures

Abraham Kuyper Was All Thumbs

Or, Why Abraham Kuyper Couldn't Keep His Hands Off of Everything

Selected Scriptures

It Is Finished (Pt 2)

Or, The Hour That Changed the World

John 19:31-42

The Incomparable Christ

Or, The Jews Didn't Know Who They Were Messing With

Colossians 1:15-20

Enjoying the Process

Ecclesiastes 2:24-26

For Such a Time

Or, When the Heavenly Father Gave Earthly Authority to Abuse His Son

John 19:1-11

Confession of the King

Or, Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth

John 18:28-40

Lord of the Traitor

Or, Not Your Garden-variety Arrest

John 18:1-11

Getting to Be a Given-One

Or, The Doctrine That Drives Hope in Jesus' Prayer

John 17:1-26

The Lifter of Heads

Or, Safety, Salvation, and Sleep for Those Who Sing to the Lord

Psalm 3:1-8

The Lord of Peace

Or, His Gifts and Going Are Good (for Him!)

John 14:25-31

Rage or Refuge

Or, The Futility of Resisting the Son's Reign

Psalm 2:1-12

Foretelling a Tragedy

Or, When Can Betrayal Strengthen Believing?

John 13:18-30

Happy Dispensationalism

Or, Living to Make the Jews Jealous

Romans 11:11-15

Wouldn't or Couldn't?

Or, Glory Too Brilliant to See

John 12:37-43

Now You Tell Me

Or, Who is this Son of Man?

John 12:27-36

Not Your Typical Triumph

Or, A Day to Remember

John 12:12-19

Pulsing Hostility

Or, The Die Is Cast

John 11:45-57

A Love for Glory (Pt 2)

Or, Sovereign Gladness and Sovereign Sorrow Do Not Contradict

John 11:7-16

A Love for Glory (Pt 1)

Or, Sovereign Gladness and Sovereign Sorrow Do Not Contradict

John 11:1-16

In Good Hands

Or, Once a Sheep - Always a Sheep

John 10:22-30

Deliberate to Death

Or, When Sacrifice Seems Crazy

John 10:17-21

A Thumb's Width (Pt 1)

Romans 9:13-24

Worship - Worldview - Walk

Or, When Christians Look Like Unbelievers

Selected Scriptures

Coming and Going

Or, Jesus' Return to Sender

John 7:25-36

Desire and Plan

Selected Scriptures

An Apostolic Passion

Paul’s Desire to Preach the Gospel at Rome

Romans 1:8-15

A Prophetic Drawing

Or, Why Coming to Jesus Is No Drag

John 6:41-46

A Familiar Story

Or, The Path of Least Believing

John 6:1-15

Take Up Your Offense

Or, Provoking Opposition on Purpose

John 5:1-15

Getting Messy

Or, A Perspective for the Trenches

Selected Scripture

Soul Food

John 4:27-42

Planned Obsolescence

John 3:22-30

An Eternal Society

John 3:16

Wrapping God's Love Around Our Minds

John 3:16

Unless One Is Born of the Spirit

John 3:4-8

Unless One Is Born Again

John 3:1-3

What Is Man? (Pt 2)

Genesis 11:1-9

Singing and Sacrificing

Romans 11:33-12:2

Before the Ages Began

Titus 1:1-2

The Gospel Tools for Discipleship

Devoted to Prayer

Wearing Knee-Holes in Hardwood Floors

Selected

Dependent in Prayer

Relying on a Sovereign God in Supplication

Selected

Remember Your Creator

Ecclesiastes 12:1-8

Expect the Unexpected

Ecclesiastes 9:11-12

It Happens to Everyone

Ecclesiastes 9:1-6

Frustration with Injustice (Pt 2)

Ecclesiastes 8:10-17

Frustration with Injustice (Pt 1)

Ecclesiastes 8:10-17

Open Mouth Short Arms

Ecclesiastes 6:10-12

GTD vs ETP

Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

Everything Is Beautiful in Its Time

Ecclesiastes 3:9-15