Preaching the Word or Trading in Novelty?
Great post from Phil Johnson: “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season…
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Trevin Wax, Counterfeit Gospels
Trevin Wax, Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hope, (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2011). Introduction If you asked ten different churchgoers to define the gospel, you may very well receive ten substantially different definitions. Increasingly, churchgoers…
The First Parents
With all the understandable brouhaha over Peter Enns’ recent book, The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins (Brazos, 2012) in which Enns decisively rejects the historicity of Adam and Eve, it is good to…
A Question of Character
One of the great lacunae in many of the current debates surrounding ministry in the contemporary world is the issue of character. In the world of confessional Presbyterianism, our focus is generally on elaborate theological integrity and intellectual accomplishments, reflecting…
A Question of Character
One of the great lacunae in many of the current debates surrounding ministry in the contemporary world is the issue of character. In the world of confessional Presbyterianism, our focus is generally on elaborate theological integrity and intellectual accomplishments, reflecting…
Successful Teens
I don’t know about you, but after church my family is always starving. So today, as I was flipping grilled cheeses, the rest of the clan was sneaking food behind my back. Meanwhile, my six-year-old son, Haydn, asked, “Mom, why…
T4T?
A non-Christian friend of mine recently returned from a trip overseas. When I asked him how his trip was, he looked me in the eye and, with finger pointing and shaking in my face, steadfastly declared to me, “There is…
The Vatican Files no. 9
The New Evangelization and Its Silences “The New Evangelization” is the buzzword for much of what happens at the Vatican. It could well become the catchword of Ratzinger’s entire pontificate given the attention that is receiving. Benedict XVI instituted a…
The Vatican Files no. 9
The New Evangelization and Its Silences “The New Evangelization” is the buzzword for much of what happens at the Vatican. It could well become the catchword of Ratzinger’s entire pontificate given the attention that is receiving. Benedict XVI instituted a…
The Searcher of Hearts
Charles Simeon says: “In forming our estimate of men, we are apt to look at their actions only; and even our own characters, also, we try by that standard. But it is the habit of the mind that chiefly marks the…