What is Experiential Christianity?
What is “experiential” Christianity? Today, this phrase is often confused with emotionalism, mysticism, or frenzied excitement, something like sentimentality detached from the intellect or the Scriptures. Many of…
Ryan Denton
Expository Preaching—The New Golden Calf, Part 2
I wish to commend Rev.’s Todd Ruddel and Adam Brink on their engagement with my article, “Expository Preaching—The New Golden Calf.” They clearly took time to sift through my words…
Expository Preaching—The New Golden Calf
Like many preachers, one of my favorite things to read are sermons from the past. Whether it’s Martyn Lloyd-Jones or the golden-mouthed John Chrysostom, I’m always intrigued by how faithful…
Discipleship in the Reformed World
When I was a Southern Baptist pastor, all I heard about was discipleship. It was their “thing,” almost to a fault. When I moved into the Reformed world, I never…
Hyper-Cessationism and the WCF: Part 3
In my previous two articles (here and here), I have maintained that the word “cessationism” needs to be used in the way it was given to us by the Westminster…
Is Hyper-Cessationism a Fair Term? Part Two
I am encouraged by the amount of interest my article on hyper-cessationism has received. It has reinforced my suspicion that the Reformed world is hungry for warmer expressions of orthodoxy,…
What is a Hyper-Cessationist?
As a capital “R” Reformed person, I would call myself a cessationist. This simply means that I believe God has “ceased” giving any new doctrine and/or new ethics. You could…