What are the odds that someone can be very successful, and yet mangage to walk humbly with his God? Well, the odds are pretty thin, say most, but what we neglect to notice is that the odds are not exactly great for those who are unsuccessful either. Among believers, we have a deep suspicion that …
Mothering As Missions
Now I am pleased to be able to say that my daughter Rachel has a guest blog post over at Desiring God. You can get there by clicking on this.
Redemptive/Historical Embarrassment
When we look at what is happening to the culture around us, and we recognize that so much of the destruction is avoidable, and we consider also the fact that the people implementing these suicidal policies are not idiots — and indeed exhibit an intelligence of the highest order in other areas, the conclusion appears …
Preaching Reality
“Preaching is indispensible to Christianity. Without preaching a necessary part of its authenticity has been lost. For Christianity is, in its very essence, a religion of the Word of God” (Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 15)
Still An Experiment. Do Not Be Alarmed.
An Objective Christ
“It is of course true that real religion is concerned with the state of the heart, and not with whether a man has jumped through all the right ceremonial hoops. When a man believes the covenant promise he points away from himself . . . To look away from the heart to an objective Christ …
A Professional, In Other Words
“The current tendency is to secularize the ministry, both its message and its office, as if the work of the minister were just the same as that of a teacher, a physician, a scientist, or an artist, only with a slightly different accent. This has done the church no good” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. …
The Real Test for Paedocommunion
The General Assembly of the PCA has now taken a strong stand against paedocommunion. But the practice of communing baptized children faces greater challenges than just this kind of opposition. Churches that practice paedocommunion (as a good number in the CREC do) face their own challenge to the practice, a challenge that arises from within. …
Super 8
This last Thursday night, Nancy and I went to the first showing of Super 8 here in Moscow, just after midnight, so I guess you would say it was actually Friday. We did not do this because we are such avid moviegoers as a general rule, but rather because the lead role in the movie …
Pentecostal Authority
INTRODUCTION: The Jewish festival of Pentecost is now famously connected to the sign gifts that were poured out on this day—gifts of tongues, and prophecy, and the like. We get the denominational name of Pentecostal from this day, and so one of the things we should learn as we mark this day is how that …