We will see Him

As I'm reflecting on the passage I preached on Sunday, I am really thankful for the Lord's mercy to so clearly remind us of our true identity in our current culture. 1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.  After reading  Carl Trueman's book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self  this past week I felt existentially depressed. He catalogues how humanity has gone through three cultural stages to be where we are today: the psychological man in an overly therapeutic culture. According to Trueman (based of work by Philip Reiff) in this age we are all victims of an oppressive society in one way or another.   He basically traces the rise of this modern man back to the philoso...

Interesting title. Ploductivity. Don't try googling it. Google auto-corrects the spelling. I think it'll hurt his sales. But that doesn't bother Doug Wilson. He will just plod on. Ploductivity is “the practice of plodding away at a pile of work, instead of frantically trying to sprint through it all,  being stable and graceful, like a buffalo upon the plains, not frantic, like a prairie dog or roadrunner”. I’ve had my fair share of roadrunning, so I decided to give this little book’s main idea a go.  The book consists of a foreword followed by two parts, each divided into 8 short chapters. A couple of hours of reading. If you’ve read any books on the theology of work you’ll find much of the first section familiar, except perhaps for Wilson’s robust prose. It’s the forward by his daughter Rebekah Merkle that I found particularly helpful. “Since Douglas Wilson is my father, I have had a front row seat throughout my entire life and can testify that you will never meet a more...