Sublime

This included responding specifically to Jesus’s commands (giving us baptism and the Lord’s Supper, for example), but it also included careful selection, reappropriation, and reorientation of formative cultural practices into the repertoire of kingdom-indexed liturgy.

Commenting on Kuyper’s proposals for liturgical reform, Wolterstorff observes that, for Kuyper, “various parts of the liturgy, and the liturgy as a whole, are to be seen as ‘an interaction between God and the congregation.’ Liturgy is action; and the actions are not just human actions and not just divine actions but ‘an interaction between God and

the context in which the law of God was given, a tracing of its story throughout the whole Bible—in a word, a biblical theological, Christocentric approach to the law—underscored that like all Gaul, God’s law is “divided into three parts”—unified indeed because divinely given, and yet multidimensional in character, function, and historical reach.

The three political lies: 1.From Hobbes, government is not about the common good or providing basic needs. It is about preserving property. 2.From Hobbes and Locke, economics is a moral-free math. Humanity’s equality need not translate to economic equity. 3.From Smith, justice is retributive—it is about punishing rule-breakers—not about making righ

God can give and God can take away. Will we trust the increase or curse the decrease, or will we say, “Blessed be the name of the LORD?” The way we are typically programmed to measure the success of our ministries sets us up for hollow victory and desperate failure. But this is not to say we should never do any measuring. It is only to say that wha