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Preaching on Hell as an act of love?

Wes Pastor (great name for a pastor!) wrote a terrific post for the Gospel Coalition. He is the founding pastor of Christ Memorial Church which is the largest baptist church in Vermont. In his post, Pastor recalls how Johnathan Edwards,…

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The Devil’s in the Details

At the risk of picking on Rob Bell I am going to post another critique of “Love Wins.” It is by Greg Gilbert. Greg’s focus is on just a few details that Bell gets terribly wrong. This matters because Rob…

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Free will or free men?

“In light of what we have considered, we see that it is inaccurate to talk about free will, as though there were an autonomous thing inside of us, capable of acting in any direction, regardless of the motives of our…

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Scorning what is holy…

“There’s nothing wrong with talking and singing about how the ‘Blood will never lose its power’ and ‘Nothing but the blood will save us.’ Those are powerful metaphors. But we don’t live any longer in a culture in which people…

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Sermon Audio

Last Sunday evening I preached a message on Hell. Specifically I preached on why Jesus warned so often about Hell and the coming outpouring of God’s wrath. The sermon is entitled “The Other Side of the Good News” and can…

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Al Mohler Responds to Brian McLaren

The other day Brian McLaren decided to point out Al Mohler’s many errors in his critique of Rob Bell’s Love Wins. It’s the usual post-modern emergent fogginess. You know the routine. It’s the, “We can’t really know the Gospel so…

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Free Audio Book

Christian Audio is offering John Piper’s very helpful Jesus: The Only Way to God in audio format free of charge. Check it out HERE.

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Michael Horton Reviews “Love Wins”

I was hoping Mike Horton would review Rob Bell’s newest book. It is a thoughtful review which sets Bell’s understanding of the gospel and heaven and hell in historical context. Horton also, appropriately, challenges Bell’s habit of asking rhetorical questions…

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Regeneration and Conversion

Infants do not induce, or cooperate in, their own procreation and birth; no more can those who are “dead in trespasses and sins” prompt the quickening operation of God’s Spirit within them (see Eph. 2:1–10). Spiritual vivification is a free,…