There are two issues addressed in chapter IV of The Second Helvetic Confession: whether or not Christ should be pictured in an image and whether or not we should put up images of the saints. The first issue continues to be of interest in the Reformed world. The second issue is one of the reasons Protestants are not Catholics. Despite claims to the contrary Catholics and Orthodox continue to use images, relics, etc. in a way that is unbiblical. Here is what the confession says about these two issues. Continue reading
Daily Archives: November 29, 2016
Sermon: Pursuing Peace
Here is a sermon I did a couple of weeks ago on pursuing peace in our congregation. The key verse was Hebrews 12:14.
Porn is Barren
A good reminder from Pastor Douglas Wilson in his book Father Hunger. Too many men want sex without children. Obviously this applies to porn, but it also applies to purposely barren marriages.
One of the things that should be most obvious to a man about the women involved in pornography is that such images, however appealing a man may find them, are images that can present him with no children. They are barren. They flaunt their breasts, but they will never nurse the children of those who gawk with them. The men who pursue such women are men who want such barrenness; they find it a selling point. Another way of saying this is that they don’t want to be fathers. They want the privileges of sexual release (after a fashion) but without the responsibilities that God’s wisdom necessarily attached to these pleasures.