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  • Evil for Evil

    ByJonathan Homesley

    INTRODUCTION

    “Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.” Romans 12:17 (ESV)

    I don’t know what side you take on vaccines, masks, BLM, the 2020 election, or any of the other 1,000 hot-button issues facing our nation today. Nor is my goal in this letter to try and convince you of my perspective on any of them. My goal in this letter is to …

  • Freedom & Form

    ByJonathan Homesley

    If there is not a proper balance between form and freedom, then the society will move into either of two extremes. Freedom, without a proper balance of form, will lead to chaos and to the total breakdown of society. Form, without a proper balance of freedom, will lead to authoritarianism, and to the destruction of individual and social freedom. (Francis Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster, p. 21)…

  • The Word

    ByJonathan Homesley

    “There are two reasons in our day, of holding to a strong uncompromising view of Scripture,” Francis Schaeffer wrote nearly four decades ago. “First and foremost, this is the only way to be faithful to what the Bible teaches about itself… And without a strong view of Scripture as a foundation, we will not be ready for the hard days to come.” [1] In more ways than one, Schaeffer foresaw all of the moral insanity, …

  • Three Laws – Psalm 19

    ByJonathan Homesley

    THE TEXT:

    Our text for today is Psalm 19. These are God’s Words.

    19 TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.
    1 The heavens declare the glory of God,
    and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
    2 Day to day pours out speech,
    and night to night reveals knowledge.
    3 There is no speech, nor are there words,
    whose voice is not heard.
    4 Their voice goes out through all the earth,
    and their words …

  • SNW Week Four: What Do We Do?

    ByJonathan Homesley

    Disclaimer: This audio series summarizes the central arguments of Carl Trueman’s book, Strange New World and was created for the purpose of teaching a 4-week discipleship course for Lake Wylie Baptist Church. Much of the material consists of copied text from Trueman’s book, often edited for the sake of condensed presentation to a live audience. Please do not distribute without permission.

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  • “Buzzing cloud of flies about the cross.”

    ByJonathan Homesley

    He creates the universe, already foreseeing—or should we say ‘seeing’? there are no tenses in God—the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath’s sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a ‘host’ …

  • Beastly Governments

    ByJonathan Homesley

    INTRODUCTION

    Which matters more: planting churches or electing politicians? There is a sense, of course, in which church planting connects with eternity in ways that 21st-century American politics does not. But this is not a zero-sum game whereby political effort equals less church planting. On the contrary, it may be that all the unopposed church planting we’re able to pursue today is the result of a lot of political effort in the past. And, if …