“This is the ultimate foundation for Christian hedonism and profoundly shapes a pastor’s pulpit ministry. As Christian hedonists we know that every listener longs for happiness. And we will never tell them to deny or repress that desire. Their problem is not that they want to be satisfied but that they are far too easily …
Life Needs Food
“The power that makes preaching pastorally effective does not reside in the preacher, but in God who utilizes him as His instrument in His good pleasure . . . the life of His creatures is finite . . . It is not sufficient to itself. It needs God in an absolute sense and it needs …
Considering All Things on All Things Considered
For those of you who have access to a radio, Nate will be on All Things Considered this afternoon, right near the end of the first hour. That would be approximately 4:50 pm. For those of you here in Moscow, that should be 91.7 on your dial. And if you are on the East Coast, …
Racisim That Goes Clean to the Bone
“Given the fact that human beings evolved from primates, as you asserted earlier, is there any a priori reason why a consistent evolutionist wouldn’t cheerfully agree that one race of human beings could certainly be lower on the evolutionary tree than the others? Any reason why, when we get to homo sapiens, magic suddenly intervenes …
To This End I Labor
“Good service is always and fundamentally receiving mercy, not rendering assistance . . . The only right way to serve God is in a way that reserves for Him all the glory. ‘Whoever serves [must do it] as one who serves by the strength that God supplies — in order that in everything God may …
Homiletical Care
“If the quality called ‘pastoral’ be not understood, preaching will not be understood” (Volbeda, The Pastoral Genius of Preaching, p. 30).
Have You Heard the One About the Turtle Antifreeze?
My brother, Dr. Gordon Wilson, recently wrote about yet another marvel that God put into our world. You can find out more about it here.
Atheism As an Epistemic Hoot
“On your account I am one set of complex chemical reactions secreting something that I falsely believe to be arguments to another set of complext chemical reactions who falsely believes that he is reading them . . . if you apply reason and self-criticism to an atheistic examination of ethics, you should discover within ten …
But the Storehouses of Grace Never Have an Inventory Crisis
“Good deeds do not pay back grace; they borrow more grace” (Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, p. 38).
The First Step Is to Eat the Text
“To put it in the symbolic fashion of Revelation 10:8-11, these men first ate the book containing God’s revelation, and then they prophesied . . . It must become a piece and parcel of our spiritual selves, so that, no matter to whom, when, or wheresoever, we preach, the sermon comes, yea verily from the …