The Return of the Blog

Well, I have been away for awhile from blogging. First, I went to New Zealand for three weeks and then I came back to more emails than I could imagine. Only now am I getting around to posting something in the blogosphere (I’ve always wanted to use that word. I sometimes think about using it randomly in sentences - “Hi Jim. Nice blogosphere you’ve got there.”)

After preaching this weekend, I was thinking about all the stuff that I would have liked to have said about the triumphal entry of Jesus, but just didn’t have time for. So, here are a couple of thoughts…

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Theology Friday - Taste

I spent some time this morning reading through a sermon that an old Puritan guy named Thomas Chalmers wrote. It’s called The Expulsive Power of a New Affection and the basic argument is that you won’t abandon an immoral love (or “taste” as he calls it) if you don’t have a greater love to replace it. So, for example, if money is what you think will bring you joy, meaning, and purpose in life, you will do whatever it takes to get your hands on it. It will become your functional god. According to Chalmers, the only way you will be able to turn away from the love of money is to have another, greater love. You need a new affection that will be able to displace the old one.

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Theology Friday - Pierced

I have been reading through this great book called Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution and have found it both theologically stimulating and personally challenging. I came across one of the best explanations of the central aspects of Christian faith on page 104 and I thought I would share it with you. Read is slowly and take it in. It will make your day…

“God the Father gave his Son to save rebellious, God-hating people, knowing that he would be despised and rejected by those he had made, that he would be a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. He spared sinful people from condemnation, death and punishment, but he did not spare his own beloved Son, with whom he was well pleased.

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