On this week’s MoS, Todd and I are joined in the Underground Bunker by Dr. Jonathan Master of Cairn University, with whom we then discuss the fascinating, flawed, frustrating, yet inspiring book by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers. …
On Sunday I preached from Matthew 11:25-30. The sermon is entitled “Accepted by God” and can be listened to HERE.
Mark Dever has had a great impact on my life and ministry. When I was a Southern Baptist pastor who had come to embrace the Doctrines of Grace I felt incredibly isolated until I stumbled across 9 Marks Ministries around…
My wife tells me that I frighten people. Whenever we are in public and I meet someone new, I ask, “What’s going on?” in a somewhat loud voice. It is not the content of my initial greeting that frightens people…
Every organization has its own language. Computer programming companies speak C++. Accounting firms talk in pluses and minuses. The armed forces use a unique language as well. We use words like, “head,” “scuttlebutt,” “grinder,” “salty.” The latter is particularly interesting…
You may have heard Apple-adorers testifying of the usefulness of an application called PrayerMate. Now Google-gogglers can join in the fun, because PrayerMate has been made available for Android. Some warnings: PrayerMate will not give you a heart for prayer;…
Shall we make our daughters into soldiers?Brilliant counsel on pastoral leadership. My favorite new app.
The combination of male cowardice and political correctness is a deadly one. Now comes news that President Obama has lifted the restrictions from women serving in combat. Please take time to Read John Piper’s clear article on this regrettable decision.…
Stephen Westerholm. Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. pp. viii + 104. $15.00, paperback. Stephen Westerholm, professor at McMaster University, has long been known in critical scholarship for upholding the “Lutheran” Paul (his term) against all…
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the great classics of Christian historical theological literature.(1) It is admired for its beauty of composition, its sophisticated literary construction, and its vivid and honest recollections of the life of its author. Some scholars would…
