“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 …
Weekly Communion
Our practice of weekly communion comes out of our understanding of covenant renewal worship. The natural progression moves from confession to consecration, and from consecration to communion. We want this progression to occur every time we worship God. The heart of biblical worship is organized around Word and sacrament. But we do not understand this …
Sins Are Like Grapes
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #54 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, …
Seriously Religitudinous
“For Christians, this is beside the point. We don’t believe religion is the answer. We believe Christ is the answer. When you combine religion with sinners, what you get is religious sin. And when you combine serious religion with sinners, what you get is serious religious sin. All this does is confirm one of the …
And the Grape Juice of Therapeutic Entertainment Does Not
“The strong wine of Jesus Christ explodes the wineskins of professionalism” (Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, p. 3).
Preaching a Felt Christ
“The preacher worthy of the name, the preacher after God’s heart, then, must proclaim the written Word of God indeed; but he must preach it — and that precisely makes it preaching — as it has come to light in his own heart and mind” (Volbeda, The Pastoral Genius of Preaching, p. 27).