
Why do we suffer?
Do you ever wonder why God does not fully explain the reality of pain? John Piper has written an excellent post on that topic. He writes: “One of the reasons God rarely gives micro reasons for his painful providences, but…

Do you ever wonder why God does not fully explain the reality of pain? John Piper has written an excellent post on that topic. He writes: “One of the reasons God rarely gives micro reasons for his painful providences, but…

Nathan Williams has written two posts (here and here) about his recent visit to Mars Hill Bible Church pastored by emerging church leader Rob Bell. I think William’s experience speaks for itself.

This Sunday I am preaching on Acts 6:1-7. It is the account of the first real challenge to the church’s unity. The incident that Luke recounts exposed an ugly division within the body of Christ in Jerusalem. The division, which…

I love J.I. Packer. I try to read everything he writes. His influence upon sound evangelical thinking would be difficult to overestimate. One of Packer’s many strengths is his ability to pack a freight train of theology into a comparitively…

Over the past few days, on my personal blog, I’ve been posting quotes from L. Gregory Jones and Kevin R. Armstrong’s book, Resurrecting Excellence: Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry (you can find these here, here, and here). This morning I finished the…

My friend Eric Redmond has published an excellent blog on Obama and the election. I have no vote (much to the relief of many Ref21 readers, I am sure — though, bizarrely, I still pay tax in a nation founded…

My friend Eric Redmond has published an excellent blog on Obama and the election. I have no vote (much to the relief of many Ref21 readers, I am sure — though, bizarrely, I still pay tax in a nation founded…

“You might be an emergent Christian: if you listen to U2, Moby, and Johnny Cash’s Hurt (sometimes in church), use sermon illustrations from The Sopranos, drink lattes in the afternoon and Guinness in the evenings, and always use a Mac;…

Thanks to Timmy Brister for this important post: “Nobody can tell a Southern Baptist what to do.”“That’s the comment by Darrell Orman, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, speaking to Christianity Today after the passing of the resolution on regenerate church…

Take time to listen to this edition of the Albert Mohler Program. Dr. Russell Moore is the host and his two guests are Mark Dever of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University. The question the program…