Month July 2008

The Gospel Coalition will be hosting their national conference in April. Take a look at the speakers and topics. God willing, I will be there. Also, check out their new e-magazine. Great stuff!

From Harper’s Magazine: SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED From the website of You’ve Been Left Behind, a service that for a $40 fee provides customers who expect to be raptured the chance to send messages to loved ones on earth. We all…

Ben Witherington, a world-class New Testament scholar from Asbury Theological Seminary recently interacted with some statements from emerging church leader Rob Bell. Witherington is very irenic in tone. While not always agreeing with Witherington I have appreaciated much of his…

Do you ever wonder why God does not fully explain the reality of pain? John Piper has written an excellent post on that topic. He writes: “One of the reasons God rarely gives micro reasons for his painful providences, but…

Nathan Williams has written two posts (here and here) about his recent visit to Mars Hill Bible Church pastored by emerging church leader Rob Bell. I think William’s experience speaks for itself.

This Sunday I am preaching on Acts 6:1-7. It is the account of the first real challenge to the church’s unity. The incident that Luke recounts exposed an ugly division within the body of Christ in Jerusalem. The division, which…

I love J.I. Packer. I try to read everything he writes. His influence upon sound evangelical thinking would be difficult to overestimate. One of Packer’s many strengths is his ability to pack a freight train of theology into a comparitively…