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Some of us are fond of bemoaning evangelical celebrity culture as largely the product of a church too much tinged with the spirit of the age. A few weeks ago, Michael Haykin was kind enough to let me see a brief pamphlet from 1645, entitled Anthropolatria; or, the Sinne of Glorying in Men,...

There are many reasons why marriages suffer. Here are four. 1. You have fallen in love with someone else. Adultery, pornography, and all manner of lusts provide a third party to an otherwise two-party marriage. Intimacy decreases, the closeness that you once experienced is exchanged for distance,...

Looking at Logos 5, we have considered the underlying Logos 5 platform , and then considered the base packages available before surveying a specialist package . In the last part of this extended review, I want to ask the question, "Should you consider Logos, and - if so - for whom?" I think that...

I have arrived home from a delightful visit to the beautiful land of Australia. My first few days were in Sydney, where I preached at the Truth of the Gospel conference on the topic of "The Brokenhearted Evangelist." On the Lord's day, I was able to preach at the two sponsoring churches, Southern...

How do we deal with the tricky matter of pastors moving from one congregation to another? Some time ago I was in a session meeting with my elders, discussing my salary, and the phone rang (a long distance call). Within a minute of the phone conversation, I was asked about becoming the pastor at...

I believe that our churches should be devoted to consumer-driven worship. That is, we should identify the target audience of our worship service: our consumer. We should then conduct studies to determine what our target audience likes in worship. What will make our consumer come back? What will...

In 1996, leaders from Reformed and Evangelical churches in America gathered in Cambridge, Massachusetts to issue a call to reformation. They published The Cambridge Declaration , expressing concern that "churches today are increasingly dominated by the spirit of this age than by the Spirit of...

I recently attended a Christian meeting where candidates for ministry were introduced. The introduction involved their testimony as Christians and their sense of calling to the ministry. It was so encouraging to hear them all say that "the gospel" had gripped their lives. They were convinced that...

There are so many reasons that I praise God for my marriage. One of them is that I don't have to date anymore! What does a guy do on a date? Drawing from my book on manhood, The Masculine Mandate , let me offer some guy rules for Christian dating. First, let me refer you to Genesis 2:15, which I...

"To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen" (Rev. 1:5-6). I have been preaching long enough to have now completed a number of different expository series. Few have been so...