The gospel according to Habakkuk.

I have had the opportunity to study of of the most succinct statements of the gospel in the entire Bible, let alone the Old Testament:
“Behold, as for the proud one,  His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith.” (Habakkuk 2:4)
The third and final clause in this verse (“But [...]

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Test your love by letting go.

“Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.” (Colossians 3:1)
Paul says this to remind us that what is truly valuable is eternal, and what is eternal is obtained by seeking Christ, His gospel, and His service. This [...]

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Santa Claus is a chump.

Here’s a  little fruit from a conversation I had with my wife, Amy, this evening.
On our way out to look at Christmas lights with the kids we were discussing the subject of Santa Claus. More specifically, we were discussing the reasons why we don’t teach our kids (aged 4.5 and 3) about Santa. Now I [...]

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Burn me down, burn me up!

Q; What kind of plant grows best after it has been struck by lightning?
A: A Christian?
Huh? Says who? Turns out, God did:
“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and [...]

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Not my problem? You bet it is!

Somebody please ask me what I’m doing blogging at 6:10am on Thanksgiving morning. I think I’m supposed t be sleeping. Somehow I’m wide awake, thinking about Black Friday adds, the theological ramifications of Wall-E (which I watched last night) and competing models of the transmission of Adam’s sin.
Well, first things first. As I am working [...]

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Sin begs for the gospel.

Over the last few years I have taken to the practice of preaching the gospel to myself. When I first heard of this practice I have to confess that I was a bit mystified by what it meant, to “preach the gospel to yourself.” I thing that I figured it out, largely, when I found [...]

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A new therapy for anxiety: Scaring your children (?)!

Things here at Ikonograph have been crazy. Seems I’ve stumbled into a self-perpetuating upward spiral of Google search activity since a few weeks ago after I received a new link from a blog coming out of New Zealand. Seems that my post on Heath Ledger’s role as the Joker is still a hot topic. Or [...]

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Hasn’t Greenspan read Romans 3?

A little cud for you to chew in this election year:
One thing that always interests me is how often a faulty model of anthropology (human nature) shirt circuits men who are otherwise highly intelligent. I’ve commented before that Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, must be one of the smartest men alive, at [...]

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ikonobc.org is dead! No, seriously! Not really, though.

Just a quick note all of you dedicated readers out there: I originally started this blog in affiliation with my role in the high school ministry at Omaha Bible Church. Name domain name, ikonobc.org, which I used from this blog’s inception is no longer in use.
This blog is not dead, however. Just a little bloated. [...]

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Beer doesn’t count. Neither do beans.

Recently I posted on the importance of Christ’s simultaneously complete human and divine natures, also called the “hypostatic union”, to the cross. I mentioned that I wanted to comment more on Christ’s dual natures, and apparently since this is my own blog, I can do this. I wonder how long they were going to let [...]

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