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An Emerging Gospel
John Hendryx has posted this helpful critique of the emerging church’s understanding of the Gospel. This same approach to the Gospel can be seen among the “Red Letter Christians” like Tony Campolo.
Blogging from Basics
Tim Challies is at the Basics Conference doing some live blogging. You can find his first two posts here and here.
Scottish Reformed Conference
On Saturday last I had the privilege of preaching at the Scottish Reformed Conference, an interdenominational preaching event billed as ‘Scotland’s premier preaching and teaching conference’. The chairman, Rev David Carmichael of Abbeygreen Church of Scotland began proceedings by opening with…
Alistair Begg on Preaching
Thabiti over at Pure Church posted these two clips (here & here) of Alistair Begg on the subject of preaching. This is one of the reasons why I come to the Basics Conference every May. I get this kind of…
Oh, how I wish this was a parody!
This is just one example of how churches have moved away from faithfully preaching God’s Word and keeping the Gospel central to its proclamation. What happens in this type of preaching is that “principles” are presented “from the Bible” that…
The Church’s Greatest Need (1)
Some of the council members of The Gospel Coalition have recently addressed the question: “What is the greatest, most crying need in the American church today?” C.J. Mahaney answered this way: “The greatest need in the American church today is…
Wichita needs a waterfall
One of my favorite places in the world is the Starbucks at Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It is in a building that is about 150 years old and overlooks the waterfall. Every year that I attend the Basics Conference I sit…
Mark Johnston on cessationism and gold fillings
Mark Johnston, whose sermons on the Apostles’ Creed we are featuring just now was on Premier Radio yesterday on the topic of cessationism, here. The program can be heard as streaming audio or podcast. [Go to the link above and…
The Marring of Britain
At home in the UK this weekend (a good weekend — seeing the mighty Gloucester finish top of leage for the third time in six years, at least in the regular season), I picked up a copy of Andrew Marr’s excellent…