“Where your object is to secure your audience, rather than your Gospel, preaching is sure to suffer… “The orator, speaking generally, has for his business to make real and urgent the present world and its crises, the preacher a world…
A polemic in favor of infant baptism built on the following platform: 1) An anagogic relationship between circumcision and baptism: both are covenantal signs and seals to faith of forgiveness of sin; the power of the signs consist in the underlying…
Various problems are now dealt with: those baptized (infants) often wait many years before repentance is seen. Does this invalidate the baptism? No, “This promise was offered to us in baptism; therefore, let us embrace it by faith.” Is there…
Is Idolatry the New Sin?“Just talk about idolatry and you’ll be fine.” A mentor recently offered these words in my presence to a seminary student who was facing an assignment to preach on the topic of sin. The student’s sermon…
Is Idolatry the New Sin?“Just talk about idolatry and you’ll be fine.” A mentor recently offered these words in my presence to a seminary student who was facing an assignment to preach on the topic of sin. The student’s sermon…
Al Mohler has posted a review of John Franke’s new book “Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth.” Dr. Fanke is a professor at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA (outside Philadelphia). Franke is a post-modern theologian well known for his connection…
https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7196941&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation on Vimeo.
For too long evangelicals have seemed to be embarrassed of hell. It has even been fashionable among some otherwise solid evangelical leaders to deny what the Bible clearly teaches about Hell. Don’t misunderstand. I’m not giddy about Hell. It is…
Anyone who has ever emigrated as an adult to a foreign country will tell you that, while the physical process of moving can be dispatched in a relatively short period of time, the emotional and cultural transition takes much longer…
This is an amazing interview with Steven Curtis Chapman about his new album, Beauty Will Rise. Written as “personal psalms” in the aftermath of the tragic death of his five-year old daughter, Maria Sue, this album (to which I’m listening…
