Mike Witmer continues to review and comment on Brian McLaren’s latest book “A New Kind of Christianity.” The discerning reader will understand that what McLaren is promoting is not a new kind of Christianity but an old kind of heresy.…
Much of the Bible is polemical in nature because in the Scriptures God is routinely refuting errors. We see this as early as Genesis which operates in part as a polemic against pagan creation myths. The prophets often functioned as…
Actor Brian Cox teaches young Theo some Hamlet…
From a contribution by Andreas Kostenberger in Faith Comes By Hearing: Five Observations About the Gospel: 1. Divine, not human: The gospel is God’s saving message to a world living in darkness and a humanity lost in its sin. The…
I have had my fill of Brian McLaren. I have read his books up through “Generous Orthodoxy” which is neither orthodox or generous. But I am glad that others are still reading him with a clear eye so that those…
It has been said, “It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. NOW opens it’s mouth and once again removes all doubt. In a report from the LA Times…
From an address by John Piper: In April, 1831, Charles Simeon was 71 years old. He had been the pastor of Trinity Church, Cambridge, England, for 49 years. He was asked one afternoon by his friend, Joseph Gurney, how he…
“Throughout the history of the church the greatest preachers have been those who have recognized that they have no authority in themselves, and have seen their task as being to explain the words of Scripture and apply them clearly to…
Scandalous by D.A. Carson Discovering God in the Stories of the Bible by Phil Ryken Wired for Intimacy by William Struthers The Masculine Mandate by Richard Phillips
