“The cross [is] the ground of the objective validity of preaching and the ground of the subjective humility of preaching” (Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, p. 29).
Fatherhood in the Pulpit
“For when Paul says: I have begotten you, he means to say: I am a father to you; you are children to me. I am not merely your tutor and you, my wards” (Volbeda, The Pastoral Genius of Preaching, p. 74).
He Calls the Shots
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #59 “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is …
So Cold, So Sweet, So Sweet, So Fair
If I believe, as I do, that the chief threat to American security is our own government’s wastrel ways, its out-of-control spending, in distinction from Islamic fundamentalism, then why wouldn’t I just full-tilt endorse Ron Paul? I am unwilling to do that, despite appreciating many of the things he says, and liking many of the …
God Does, But Does Not Try
“The reason Christ came into the world was to save it — and most emphatically His mission was not to try to save it” (Heaven Misplaced, p. 48).
Restoring the Throne
“The great design and intention of the office of a Christian preacher [is] to restore the throne and dominion of God in the souls of men” (Cotton Mather, as quoted in Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, p. 22).
Twenty Percent of a Wave
Ross Douthat makes a reasonable amount of good sense on the Ron Paul sitch here. I will try to add my little bit of good sense at this time — 24 hours before the Iowa raucous starts — bringing the national percentage of good sense about Paul up to about 1.7%. Nate and I were …
John Frame Went and Escondidit
John Frame’s new book, The Escondido Theology, is finally out and available. I commend it to you. After you have read it, you may then google up responses/reviews to it, clamber into your canoe of irencism, and paddle all over a small mountain lake of snark.
The State of the Church 2012
INTRODUCTION:Our duties toward God and man are concrete duties. All of our duties are attached to names, and faces, and places. We have no duties in isolation; all duties occur in the context of relationships. But in order to love as we ought in each particular instance of a relationship we need to understand how …
Name Tags and the Lord’s Supper
This is the Table of the Lord, just as the Bible is the Word of the Lord. Both the Table and the Word contain great and precious promises. But here is the question, one that has troubled many (in one sense) and not troubled near enough (in another). Are these promises for you? Is your …