I highly recommend reading the whole of the post from which this is an excerpt. Raymond Ortlund Jr. has tried to imagine the church without the gospel. “What might our evangelicalism, without the evangel, look like?” he asks. “We would have to replace the centrality of the gospel with something else, naturally....
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John Piper: I Was Racist | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
I am not writing this book as a successful multiethnic leader. I am not successful. I am not an expert in diversity. If you came looking for the pragmatic silver bullet for the multiethnic congregation, I may as well bid you farewell. I don’t have it. I write because of truth I see in...
Doctrines Necessary for Effective Evangelism
Via the Fundamentals. First, Sin—its universality, nature and consequences… If unrepenting and unbelieving, the future has for him, First, inexorable and awful judgment. (See Matthew 25:30-46; Hebrews 9:27; Jude 14,15; Revelation 20:11-13; 22:11-15). Second, the wrath of God. (See Ezra 8:22; Psalm 21:9; John 3:36; Romans 1:18; 2:5; 4:15; 5:9; 12:19; 13:4; Ephesians 2:3;...
A Blessing
The site stats here are not that great, but I’m not extremely worried about that. It is a blessing, though, to know that over 1,000 people have viewed my post on the Casey Anthony verdict, and that many shared it and discussed it on Facebook as well. That is the good thing about the...
Christ Centered Preaching
Chapell’s Christ-Centered Preaching has been a hit for a few years. I finally picked up a copy while on vacation last week. I devoured it in two days. While not giving a full-fledged review of the book, I felt that I could at least give a few thoughts about it. 1. The book was...
Fellowship and Separation
“that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. This then is the message which we have...
Turning The Other Cheek
“And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. ” (Luke 6:29) This passage seems to be a problem to most of us. There are probably a number of reasons for that, and I won’t...
The (Welcome) Rise of the Pastor-Theologian: A Friendly Response to Donald Miller – The Gospel Coalition Blog
I greatly appreciated this post from The Gospel Coalition (yeah, shoot me; I read TGC!). It’s worth reading, for sure. Scholarship, or theology, or whatever you want to label it, is not the enemy of lived Christianity. Theology, when done biblically, gives life. It is eminently practical. Faithful Christian scholars and theologians necessarily engage...
Proclaiming The Gospel Is Not Easy
Proclaiming the gospel demands an interplay of highly developed emotional-spiritual-physical-intellectual qualities. Walking naked down Main Street while playing a harmonica is nothing compared to the personal exposure required to talk about God for 20 minutes to a group of people who have been, all week long, avoiding even the barest mention of God. via...
Erik on Ehrman
I like Erik’s way of describing Ehrman as one who is a hyper-literalist. What annoys me about Ehrman is the way he uses rapid fire statements as if they are affirmations of his views and uses statements like “scholarly consensus” and “overwhelming majority of Biblical scholars” to state his views while painting the rest...
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