“Dad, what is your favorite holiday?”

by | Nov 13, 2016 | miscellaneous

In the midst of the approaching (holi)days, my daughter asked me: “Dad, what is your favorite holiday?” Over the years, I have almost completely neutralized any love or kinship with the secular days. In the midst of my studies and prayer, I have cleansed...

Do you sin by elevating particular days?

by | Nov 12, 2016 | miscellaneous

The sabbath day is commanded to be lifted up, as described in the 4th commandment. The other days of the week belong to God just like the Sabbath, but none of them have any exceptional value when compared to the sabbath day-there is a vast difference. Part of the...

The Covenanter on voting

by | Oct 28, 2016 | miscellaneous

The Duty of the Christian Voter (the Covenanter, 1845) “Now what is the duty of the moral—the Christian voter? Is it not, clearly, so to cast his vote that he may, as a member of the body politic, throw his weight, not into the scale of vice, but into that of...