When Complementarians Use the Same Language as the Transgender Movement

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Who's really the thin complementarian?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been provoked by something on Twitter recently and tempted to respond with my own provocative tweet. I’m trying to do less of that. While there used to be lamentations that too many people can write whatever they want on a blog post and, besides, people aren’t reading enough books, I enjoyed writing and reading blogs as a sort of public journaling. This is now being replaced by tweets and tweet threads.

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Friday: The Pilgrims' Psalm: Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: Living Sacrifices

In this week’s lessons, we are reminded of the need to trust the Lord for his deliverance from our struggles, and to praise him for his goodness and mercy.

Scripture: Psalm 107:1-32

In the opinion of many commentators the most beautiful, most poetic and certainly the most stirring section of Psalm 107 is the part that describes the peril of God's people while at sea (vv. 23-32). Although it was not, it might have been written as a description of that difficult sixty-five day late-fall crossing of the turbulent North Atlantic by the Pilgrim fathers and their families. A person needs to have been on the ocean in a great storm to appreciate how accurate those frightening words from verses 23-32 are.

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Thursday: The Pilgrims' Psalm: Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: Deliverance from Physical and Spiritual Sickness

In this week’s lessons, we are reminded of the need to trust the Lord for his deliverance from our struggles, and to praise him for his goodness and mercy.

Scripture: Psalm 107:1-32

As we read in yesterday's study, we have been slaves to sin, but by his atoning death we have been forever liberated. Can we not each say that we have “rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High,” as the psalmist does in verse 11, and that God “brought [us] out of the darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away [our] chains," as he does in verse 14? Shouldn't we thank God for that deliverance? The refrain says (with appropriate variation from verses 8, 9), “Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.”

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Wednesday: The Pilgrims' Psalm: Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: Imprisonment

In this week’s lessons, we are reminded of the need to trust the Lord for his deliverance from our struggles, and to praise him for his goodness and mercy.

Scripture: Psalm 107:1-32

Yesterday we looked at the example of homelessness as the first peril described in this psalm. In our congregation at Tenth Presbyterian Church we have many people who have been homeless but who have cried out to the Lord and been given homes to live in. They are thankful for their homes. But how about yourself? Even if you have never been homeless and have always had a home, should you not be even more grateful than those who have only been given homes recently?

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Tuesday: The Pilgrims' Psalm: Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: Homeless Wandering

In this week’s lessons, we are reminded of the need to trust the Lord for his deliverance from our struggles, and to praise him for his goodness and mercy.

Scripture: Psalm 107:1-32

Charles Spurgeon wrote that the theme of the psalm is “thanksgiving and the motives for it.”1 That is well said, for thanksgiving is the note struck in the opening verses (vv. 1-3) as well as in the refrain of verses 8-9, 15-16, 21-22 and 31-32.

Charles Spurgeon wrote that the theme of the psalm is “thanksgiving and the motives for it.”1 That is well said, for thanksgiving is the note struck in the opening verses (vv. 1-3) as well as in the refrain of verses 8-9, 15-16, 21-22 and 31-32.

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Monday: The Pilgrims' Psalm: Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: Peril, Deliverance, and Praise

In this week’s lessons, we are reminded of the need to trust the Lord for his deliverance from our struggles, and to praise him for his goodness and mercy.

Scripture: Psalm 107:1-32

It may seem strange to anyone who knows anything about the English Puritans to speak of Psalm 107 as “The Pilgrims' Psalm,” not because they did not know, frequently read and greatly cherish it, but because, being people of the Book, they loved and cherished the other psalms, too. In fact, they cherished the entire Bible.

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Friday: Let All God's People Say "Amen"

By James Boice

Theme: God’s Judgment, Compassion, and Deliverance

In this week’s lessons we see that even when we sin, the Lord remains the God who acts not only in judgment, but also in faithfulness and compassion.

Scripture: Psalm 106:1-48

When we come to the last section of this psalm, after the historical review of Israel's unfaithfulness to God, we are told of God’s response to the people’s sin (vv. 40-46). It was twofold. First, there was judgment. Judgment we expect. We are told that God was angry with his people and therefore "handed them over to the nations” so that "their foes ruled over them" and "their enemies oppressed them” (vv. 40–42). This was the actual history of the people once they entered the Promised Land. They sinned by compromising with the values of the nations around them. 

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Thursday: Let All God's People Say "Amen"

By James Boice

Theme: Three More Sins of Rebellion

In this week’s lessons we see that even when we sin, the Lord remains the God who acts not only in judgment, but also in faithfulness and compassion.

Scripture: Psalm 106:1-48

In today's study we continue our look at rebellion, the sin identified with the people's exodus from Egypt, and the root sin that lies at the heart of the other sins of Israel. The psalmist catalogues six sins associated with Israel's years of wandering in the wilderness, and then follows them with one more from the years in Canaan. We looked at the first three yesterday and continue with the rest today.

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Wednesday: Let All God's People Say "Amen"

By James Boice

Theme: Discontent, Jealousy, and Idolatry

In this week’s lessons we see that even when we sin, the Lord remains the God who acts not only in judgment, but also in faithfulness and compassion.

Scripture: Psalm 106:1-48

Rebellion, the sin identified with the people's exodus from Egypt, is a root sin that lies at the heart of the other sins of Israel. Still each sin is worth remembering separately, which is what the psalmist does at this point. He remembers six sins associated with Israel's years of wandering in the wilderness, and then follows them with one more from the years in Canaan. We will look at the first three sins of Israel in today's study.

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Tuesday: Let All God's People Say "Amen"

By James Boice

Theme: The Need to Confess Our Sin

In this week’s lessons we see that even when we sin, the Lord remains the God who acts not only in judgment, but also in faithfulness and compassion.

Scripture: Psalm 106:1-48

If verse 1 strikes the keynote of the psalm as far as God is concerned, crying, "Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever,” verse 6 strikes the keynote as far as the people are concerned. It has to do with Israel's sin and is a confession of it: “We have sinned, even as our fathers did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.” 

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