From The Juvenilization Of American Christianity : "Juvenilization happened when no one was looking. In the first stage, Christian youth leaders created youth-friendly versions of the faith in a desperate attempt to save the world. Some hoped to reform their churches by influencing the next...

On Sunday I preached part 23 of our current series through Philippians. It is entitled "Strengthened For Contentment" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

Thanks to Justin Taylor for posting these excellent lectures on Pro-Life ethics from Scott Klusendorf: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnDooyEvaRI&w=460&h=259] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt7GAhbxfHY&w=460&h=259] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

This quarter's issue of Southern Seminary Magazine is worth reading (as they all are). Be sure especially to read: "Resolute About Biblical Authority Amidst Compromise And Confusion In The Church" by Al Mohler (pp. 36-38) "Black And White And Red All Over: Why Racial Justice Is A Gospel Issue" by...

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The "I've been to heaven and back" book phenomena continues to grow. There is yet another one which has hit the New York Times bestseller list. Now we can read about Mary C. Neal's trip to heaven in her book "To Heaven And Back." Evangelicals love this stuff! The books by Don Piper and Todd Burpo...

From Mike McKinley In an earlier post, I mentioned Mike Minter 's Stay the Course one-day seminar for pastors. From that seminar, here is Mike's "anatomy of conflict": An offense occurs. A biased view of the offense is shared with friends. Friends take up the offense. Sides begin to form. Suspicion...

Apart from the Bible, this could be the most important resource we have promoted in my eight years at the bookstore. Rarely have I seen a resource like Episode 2 that so clearly communicates something that our Lord cares so much about. The gospel transforming lives, the Church laying siege to the...

WTSbooks is now offering Dispatches From The Front for almost 50% off. Publisher's Description: Believers everywhere desperately need a renewed vision of Christ and the unstoppable advance of His saving work in all the earth. Our view of God’s Kingdom is often too small and limited to what we have...

Check out these new resoures from the Association of Biblical Counselors and P&R.

Until about three-and-a-half years ago, I had been a life-long Southern Baptist. I was trained in a Southern Baptist university and seminary. I served in Southern Baptist churches as a youth pastor, and later as a senior pastor. For years there has been a controversy within the Southern Baptist...

Whate’er my God ordains is right: His holy will abideth; I will be still whate’er He doth; And follow where He guideth; He is my God; though dark my road, He holds me that I shall not fall: Wherefore to Him I leave it all. Whate’er my God ordains is right: He never will deceive me; He leads me by...

Before any great achievement, some measure of the same depression is very usual. Surveying the difficulties before us, our hearts sink within us. The sons of Anak stalk before us, and we are as grasshoppers in our own sight in their presence. The cities of Canaan are walled up to heaven, and who...

How often we overestimate our importance! It's not that the way we live does not matter immensely, for it does. It's not that our living does not impact our effectiveness to advance the gospel, for it does. But let us not forget that the power of the gospel does not come from us. The gospel has...

Inerrancy And Worldview by Vern Poythress Communion With The Triune God by John Owen Wherever I Wind Up by R.A. Dickey The Full Harvest by Charles Spurgeon Shame Interrupted by Ed Welch Gospel Coach: Shepherding Leaders to Glorify God by Thomas & Wood Transformed By God: New Covenant Life and...

On Sunday I preached part 19 of our current series through Philippians. It is entitled "Follow The Right Example" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

Congratulations to Dr. David Garner (a friend to me and of Church of the Saviour) for his good work in editing the new book by P&R Did God Really Say?

Great analysis by Denny Burk on the idea of "Post-Partisan" Evangelicals: My concern with the post-partisanship of Jonathan Merritt is the message that it sends to ordinary evangelicals. When the ordinary evangelical steps into the voting booth this November, he will in fact have a choice to make...

All your church attendance, all your religious activities, your Sunday school attendance medals, your journals, having a “quiet time,” reading the Scriptures—it’s all in vain if you don’t have Christ. We are saved, sanctified, and sustained by what Jesus did for us on the cross and through the...

Great post from Jared Wilson : As God has built his church, his church leaders have not always kept up with what makes a church a church. So even to mention the idea of a church disciplining its members strikes tenderhearted and undereducated Christians as weird, mean, and legalistic. How do we...

On Sunday I preached part 18 in our current series in Philippians. It is entitled "Restful Striving" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

Great wisdom from the Memoirs of Charles Simeon: The longer I live, the more I feel the importance of adhering to the rules which I have laid down for myself in relation to such matters. 1st. To hear as little as possible what is to the prejudice of others. 2nd. To believe nothing of the kind till...

There has been much debate concerning the so-called insider movement which advocates removing references in the Bible to Jesus as the Son of God. The debate is important. Obviously, Muslims are offended by any language that would refer to Jesus as anything other than a great prophet. And, since...

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