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 .

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, and to man mysterious, exercise of divine power (John 3:8...

From a sermon preached by John Piper on Romans 2:6-10 : I feel such a burden for us as a church to swim against the tide of almost every current in our culture. More and more and more, America is a nation given over to play. The industries of play are huge! Houses are built today with entertainment...

At the 2008 Together for the Gospel conference R.C. Sproul delivered an extraordinary message on the nature of Christ's atonement as anticipated through the Old Testament sacrificial system. It is a powerful antidote against the current trend to deny the substitionary atonement of Jesus. The...

Check out these helpful resources from Monergism. Also, take time to read this article by Robert Reymond which utterly refutes the idea of inclusivism.

On Sunday I preached part 8 in our series God's Great Story: How the Gospel Changes Everything . It is entitled "The Life-Giving God" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

Rob Bell has been making the rounds. He's been on Good Morning and America and on MSNBC with Martin Bashir. What is fascinating is the clarity that Mr. Bashir seems to possess concerning Rob Bell's project. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-qgmJ7nzA]

Mike Witmer has an excellent post demonstrating the problem with Rob Bell's promo video for Love Wins . You see, many folks will view that video (or read the book or hear Bell speak) and be persuaded, not because of the truthfulness of the position but by the power of the narrative. Several years...

There is a sense in which the church owes a debt to heresy. Don't misunderstand. We should never be thankful for false teaching which leads God's people astray. False teachers are clearly condemned in Scripture. But we also know just how easily sound doctrine devolves into a kind of dead orthodoxy...

On Sunday I am preaching on the miracle of the new birth from John 3. This evening I found some wonderful words from Warren Wiersbe which are in his commentary on 1 Peter, Be Hopeful : This miracle [the new birth] all began with God: we were chosen by the Father (Eph. 1:3-4). This took place in the...

Gospel Coalition Booklets , D.A. Carson & Tim Kellor (ed.)

On Sunday I preached part 7 in the current series God's Great Story: How the Gospel Changes Everything . It is entitled "The Incarnate God" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

When Zondervan says you do not fit within the parameters of their mission, you know you're in trouble. Zondervan (along with IVP) pretty much defines broad margin, big tent evangelicalism these days. Large publishing houses like Zondervan are also very fond of books that sell (imagine that!). That...

The latest flap over Rob Bell's views of hell and salvation have raised once again the post-modern infatuation with doubt and uncertainty. Even as post-modernism has largely been consigned to the intellectual trash bin, the emergent kids still think it is cutting edge. "We're into questions, not...

"One thing is clear to us, we cannot be expected to meet in any union which comprehends those whose teachings on fundamental points is exactly the reverse of that which we hold dear. Cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our...

On Wednesday I was able to attend the annual Gaffin Lecture Westminster Theological Seminary. Al Mohler was the speaker and his lecture was entitled: "On the Other Side of Complexity: Christian Conviction in the Late Modern Age." It is an academic lecture, not a sermon so don't expect a long string...

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Worth Reading... Hell Under Fire , Morgan & Peterson ed. What is Hell? by Morgan & Peterson Hell on Trial by Robert Peterson Heaven and Hell by Edward Donnelly

The newest release from Cruciform Press sounds like an interesting one: The Organized Heart: A Woman's Guide to Conquering Chaos . From the Publisher: The fight against chaos is universal, whether it be the outward chaos of disorder and frenzy or the inward chaos of fear and self-criticism. Even if...

The Latest Nine Marks Journal is available. The theme of this issue is the relationship between the church and the parachurch. • J. Mack Stiles, Nine Marks of a Healthy Parachurch Ministry . A longtime parachurch veteran lays out nine things that should keep a parachurch ministry faithful to the...

On Sunday I preached part 7 in our series God's Great Story. It is entitled The All-Wise God and is taken from Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job, and Psalms. You can listen to or download it HERE .

The dust up over the promotional materials for Rob Bell's newest book has been interesting. Justin Taylor has been excoriated for expressing (in a relatively gentle way) his concerns over Bell's clear compromises with Biblical truth. That criticism reflects what seems to be the new mainstream of...

In a recent interview by the Dean at Point Looma Nazarene College Rob Bell responded to Mark Driscoll's pronouncement that Bell is a heretic: Nelson: Time Magazine, a year or two ago, called you the next Billy Graham. And then you’ve got a pastor at another Mars Hill church calling you a heretic...

So, we've known for a while that Rob Bell was going to release a book denying the doctrines of Hell and the final judgement. It's a sentimental message that will certainly resonate with many contemporary evangelicals who cannot cope with any notion of exclusion. These are the same folks who loved...