If you are discipling a newer (or even not so new) believer then I cannot recommend highly enough Stephen Smallman's excellent book The Walk . Smallman wrote it for the very purpose of two people to work through together. It is structured in three main divisions: Part One: The Basics 1. What is a...

This singing of the Hallelujah Chorus occured last Saturday at the old Wanamaker building. For those of you who do not know, the Wanamaker has one of the world's largest pipe organs. Very cool!

Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses. - 1 Timothy 5:19 None are more exposed to slanders and insults than godly teachers. This comes not only from the difficulty of their duties, which are so great that sometimes they sink under them, or stagger or...

Long Story Short is an excellent new book of family devotions by Marty Machowski. Marty is the Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship in Glenn Mills, PA. I was kindly sent an advanced copy of the manuscript and can tell you that it is extremely well done. It is designed to assist parents in...

The fires of debate among Christians concerning evolution have been getting a lot of fuel lately. In one corner is Biologos which has been seeking to convince evangelicals to embrace evolution and deny the Scripture's inerrancy. In the other corner are Al Mohler, the Discovery Institute, and many...

For Reformation Day I preached from 2 Timothy 3:14-17. The title of the sermon is "Above All Earthly Powers" and can be listened to or downloaded HERE .

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Once the authority of Scripture is dismissed in some things it is not long before it will be dismissed in all things. Karl Giberson over at Biologos continues to reveal more of his theological cards. This is no surprise to those who have been warning about the theological quicksand of subordinating...

Monergism is offering this terrific resource for a great price. If you would like to know more about Reformed theology, Amazing Grace is a good place to begin. What is Calvinism? Does this teaching make man a robot and God the author of sin? What about free will? If the church accepts Calvinism won...

October 31 is Reformation Day. I know some folks think it is Halloween but really it's Reformation Day. So I will be shaving a bald spot on my sons heads and clothing them in the plain brown robes of the Augustinian monks. They will also be equipped with a mallet and a heavily embossed piece of...

Ministry is filled with painful experiences. A pastor who is doing his work properly will regularly help shoulder the sufferings of others. Additionally, though, he will have to shoulder (usually alone) his own pain. And the pain is frequent. A pastor knows what it is to receive almost daily "...

From Randy Alcorn : On the second night of the Third Lausanne Congress taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, an 18 year-old girl from North Korea shared her story. She was born into a wealthy family, her father an assistant to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong II. Eventually her father’s...

Mark Dever delivered the a helpful message at Boyce College this week. Check it out HERE .

The following explains a new evangelistic tool called "The Story." http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14569895&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=1&color=2d7287&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 "The Story" Promotional Video from The...

Check out this good series of posts called "Know Your Heretics" .

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Some of you will be overjoyed by this post thinking that it represents the dawning of change in my political perspective (which it does not). Others of you will get angry, having the same thought. So, here goes... Over at Ref21 my friend Carl has posted what I believe is a very balanced and...

The Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament is an outstanding series. For a limited time WTSBookstore is running a great special on these volumes. The newest volume on Ephesians by Frank Thielman is now available for only $24.74 (45% off!) The current set (15 volumes) is available for $440...

Al Mohler calls our attention to a USA Today article by Michael Shermer. Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic Magazine is an enthusiastic atheist and, therefore, evolutionist. In the article referred to by Mohler, Shermer seeks to explain how such deep love as that of a parent for a child is explained...

A few new titles I am particularly interested in... City of Man: Religion and Politics in the New Era Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative Ephesians (BECNT) 40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law

Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago, a scientist and former believer has finally settled the debate between science and Christianity. It seems that the two cannot be friends after all. Of course Dr. Coyne's presupposition is that religious faith is hopelessly nonsensical. His religious fervor...

Sunday's message was part 43 in our series through Hebrews. It is entitled "Pursuing Godliness Together" and is taken from Hebrews 12:14-17. You can listen to or download it HERE .

Thanks to Gabriel Fluhrer for this quote from D.A. Carson: "I have been teaching more decades now that I can count and if I have learned anything from all of this teaching, its this: my students...learn what I'm excited about. So within the church of the living God, we must become excited about the...

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