The Regulative Principle, 2001

What is the Regulative Principle? What does it regulate? Does it come from the Bible? And what does it have to do with singing the Psalms?
The Regulative Principle and Exculsive A Cappella Psalm Singing as a Requirement for Worship.

The Full Rights of Sons

The complete Bible Study of women's redemption, rights and roles is online.

Here you will find easy access to all the chapters. Just scroll down to the Table of Contents.

My Rock

More from Let The Word of Christ dwell in your richly ... AS YOU Sing... (Colossians 3:16).

Since I did not receive permission from the RPCNA Board of Education and Publication for the publication of this selection book, I will only site The Book Of Psalms For Singing (1973 by The Board of Education and Publication of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America) but not quote from it.

My Rock - "...and that rock was Christ."

The Light of the World

In 1993 Trinity Christian Community Fellowship of Larnaca, Cyprus published a Psalm Selection Book entitled: Let the WORD OF CHRIST dwell in you richly ...AS YOU SING... (Colossians 3:16). Here is...

Psalm 18:28

Believing the Right Thing

The conversation was over. It had been shot dead. He was right. The Bible does say that women are to be silent...


Believing the Right Thing

To A Good Land, 1966

I don't know what I was thinking with all the crazy spacing!

To A Good Land

Daniel: Ambassador for Christ, 2006

I love singing the Psalms. I love seeing the connections between the Old and the New Testaments. So for the grand finale of a Sunday school class at Christ Covenant Church we read and sang



Daniel: Ambassador for Christ

Knight on a White Horse, 1994

Good sex. What is it?

Good: adjective.
Morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious.
Satisfactory in quality, quantity, or degree.
Of high quality.
Right; proper; fit.
Well-behaved.
Kind, beneficent, or friendly.
Honorable or worthy.
Genuine, not counterfeit.
Healthful, beneficial.
In excellent condition.

Sex: well, you know....sex.

Knight on a White Horse

Take Thursday, 1971

I remember well the evening I wrote this. Caleb was about six months old. We were living in a second floor apartment in Wilkinsburg. Next door, in another second floor apartment, lived Bob & JoAnne Willson. We were at their house for dinner along with other friends. Bob had cooked a great meal, as usual. In their living room, where we got into a lengthy discussion of our culture and how we were going to change the world, was a Goodwill couch, or maybe it was a curb-side couch, a huge full-length cigar store wooden Indian, a drum set and a stereo with huge five foot high speakers. Caleb slept quietly through the whole discussion, but ... maybe he was evesdropping! We went home late and I wrote...

Take Thursday

Storms

I love Kansas storms. So majestic and powerful!

When I was a child and fearful of storms, my Father would sing Psalm 29 to me. He told me I was a son of The Mighty. Mighty - Majestic - Glory - Splendor - Holiness. A storm is the voice of Jehovah, who blesses his people with peace.

This picture, by John Steuart Curry, always hung in our home. My Dad knew Curry and visited with him as he painted the huge tableaus in the Topeka Capitol building.

Psalm 29 Remembered in a Line Storm

Full Rights - Done!

It was a big project! I'm so glad it's done.

It was good for me to reread it. Such a wonderful gospel! I am really overwhelmed at the wonder of God, the creator of the universe, making me his child, his son.

Thank you, dear Father.

I wrote it 16 years ago. I sent it around to a number of publishers. No one wanted it. A few friends read it. Oh yes, my mother read it cover to cover. ;-))

Years went by. Computers came and went. The floppy on which it was stored became obsolete. No one could open it for me. I sent a hard copy to someone who scanned it for me. When it came back it was all those awful squares, lines, gibberish.

More years went by. Once again we got a new computer. I tried one more time to open the manuscript and....low and behold....there was something readable! Yes, it needed lots of correcting, but there it was.

So now it is out there in virtual world. I send it out with a prayer that's God's grace will go with it. I have that promise that God's Word will not return empty, but will accomplish his purpose. So, Come all who are thirsty.


God's Word is so beautiful!

The Full Rights of Sons - Opening Pages

Title Page - Dedication - Table of Contents - Scripture Citation

The Full Rights of Sons - Opening Pages

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XVII: Simply Put - "...By Faith"

This is the gospel.

This is how we must live,

By faith.

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XVII: Simply Put - "...By Faith."

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XVI: Sons - "You are all sons."

By explaining my freedom to me so carefully, Paul has been an agent for the administration of God's grace in my life. He has been one of the preachers through whom I heard the gospel. I heard and I believed. Since I believed, I called on the name of the Lord and he saved me. Paul's feet are indeed beautiful. He brought "good news" to me.

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XVI: Sons - "You are all sons."

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XV: The Middle of the Road - How safe is it?

How safe is the middle of the road?

When two opposing ideas both seem true we often try to walk between, to stay in the middle. We try to go in this direction here and that direction there.

Actually, the middle of the road is a notoriously dangerous place. Cars come at us from two different directions. It take careful attention, a lot of dexterity, and good judgment to stand in the middle of the road and not get hit. It certainly is not a place of freedom. Nor is it safe.

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XV: The Middle of the Road - How safe is it?

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XIV: Must She Be Silent? I Timothy 2:8-15

For women, this "good news, but..." leads to false feelings of inferiority and guilt because these reasons force us to look at who we are, in and of ourselves, and at what we have done, rather than at who Jesus is and what he has done. This point of view can only lead to deep humiliation and depression.

For men...

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XIV: Must She Be Silent? I Timothy 2:8-15

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XIII: Must She Be Silent? I Corinthians 14:26-40

Since the Scriptures are one whole, unified truth, these difficult passages must be interpreted in light of the clear truths we have already studied.

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XIII: Must She Be Silent? I Corinthians 14:26-40

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XII: The Exceptional Women of the Bible - Proof of the Rule

I asked, "But what about Deborah? What about Priscilla?"

The answer came, "They're the exceptions that prove the rule."

Well, it got me thinking!

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XII: The Exceptional Women of the Bible - Proof of the Rule

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XI: "The Head Over Everything" - Rule Through Reconciliation

All this would seem to say that there is no authority within the church other than Christ himself. Can this be true?

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter XI: "The Head Over Everything" - Rule Through Reconciliation

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter X: Brothers - :...you are all brothers."

Of the same womb.

What a beautiful definition for the word which Jesus used to describe all believers, "...you are all brothers." Nicodemus asked Jesus if he had to enter his mother's womb a second time in order to be born again. Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh give birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit."

All believers are of the same womb of the Spirit. We share the same parent, God, our Father. We are all brothers.

The Full Rights of Sons, Chapter X: Brothers - "...you are all brothers."