Sunday’s Sermon
On Sunday I preached part 2 in our current series through Ruth. It is entitled “Relentless Grace” (Ruth 1:6-22) and can be listened to or downloaded HERE.
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Modern Reformation magazine/ July/August 2011 So I received my last free copy of Modern Reformation since they published my essay last fall. Sigh. It was like getting a major reward in the mailbox every other month. Ralphie’s dad thought his…
Preachers, preach Christ
From Carl Trueman: “If somebody spends more time in the pulpit talking about themselves than about the Bible and Christ, then they are preaching themselves and not Christ crucified. If they talk about themselves for twenty minutes and expound the…
You can take the boy out of fundamentalism….
…. but you can’t take the fundamentalism out of the boy. That was the point I made about Frank Schaeffer in his latest book. Apparently incapable of understanding with any degree of sympathy those who do not see the world…
You can take the boy out of fundamentalism….
…. but you can’t take the fundamentalism out of the boy. That was the point I made about Frank Schaeffer in his latest book. Apparently incapable of understanding with any degree of sympathy those who do not see the world…
Disqualifying sin or incomplete sanctification?
That is my question regarding the C.J. Mahaney situation. Actually it is not really a question in my mind. I have read the massive document dump which reveals that C.J. Mahaney is – get ready – a far from perfect…
The ever-broadening tent of evangelicalism…
From an article by Randy Alcorn: I feel like right now among evangelicals—including authors, musicians, speakers and pastors—there’s a runaway train of unbiblical and unclear thinking. We are improvising theology on the fly with little regard for the Scriptures or…
Why it still matters to engage sad, silly men like Tony Jones
It would be easy to just let Tony Jones fade away into the sunset of ever degenerating evangelicalism. Tony has proved time and again to be nothing more than a less intelligent incarnation of 19th century theological liberalism. There really…
Preaching and Self-Reference
One question that has arrived in the Inbox as a result of yesterday’s post on the difference between public figures and celebrities has interesting implications for preaching. The question is about the legitimacy of self-reference in sermons. The questioner gives…