The video parody of Rob Bell’s for Live Wons, I mean Love Wins, has been online for just over 24 hours now, and has already topped 13,000 views. Kudos to Stephen Sampson, who nailed it, and Ben Merkle, who had just the right amount of fun writing it, and Dane Wilson who shot and edited …
In Burkas in No Time
We are now seeing another round of international silliness, in which we can clearly see (if we are looking straight at it) just how social justification works. A Florida pastor with a whopping two dozen parishioners recently burned a Koran, which set off a round of riots in Afghanistan. These riots ended with with some …
Another Perspective Heard From
Robbed Hell – C.A.S.T. Pearls Presents from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
The Ark of Authority
INTRODUCTION:Recall that the elders of Israel had summoned the ark of the covenant to the battlefield (1 Sam. 4:3), and the entire army of Israel was full of confidence that it would “do” something (1 Sam. 4:5). But it didn’t do anything, and Israel was decisively defeated and the ark captured. And so then it …
Upending the Old Humanity
One of the more striking aspects of Christ’s ministry was His willingness to eat with sinners. In fact, that is what He doing here, now, in this meal. He is eating with sinners. But we have to be careful to understand this properly. Some have taken His willingness to associate with the lowly as an …
Called Into a Story
The gospel tells us that we have eternal life, and the gospel tells us that we must lay hold on eternal life. We have been given an earnest, a down payment, in the person of the Holy Spirit, and we are urged to lean forward to the time when all things will be made new. …
Our Own Glory
Father over all, we confess that as nation we have pursued our own glory, and we have not pursued righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, or gentleness. We confess this failing to You with grief, and we ask You to restore us again. We pray that we would repent of our self-sufficiency, and that we would …
Understanding Bad Words
Here are the notes for a talk to the NSA student body . . . “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” …
The Apostolic Kick
“I was a pastor for about eleven years before I cam to understand the thoroughness of God’s grace in salvation. Up to that time, my teaching on the subject was a typical hodgepodge of confusion and evasion. As I look back at that time, I now find it interesting, if not somewhat curious, that no …
So Preach the Blood
“Evangelical preaching is the answer for all our church problems. It is the solvent of all heresies; and the drier and stonier the soil, the more solemn is the duty and responsibility of the preacher to sow the seed of the gospel” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 27).