“The sign of idolatry is always inordinate anxiety, inordinate anger, inordinate discouragement. Idols are good things (family, achievement, work and career, romance, talent, etc.) that we turn into ultimate things in order to get the significance and joy we need. Then they drive us to the ground because we have to have them. If we …
A word of encouragement for pastors, and by extension all Christians, from Justin Buzzard reminding us of the famous interaction between John Wesley and Peter Bohler: Most of us live life feeling our way towards an action, rather than acting our way towards a feeling. We have it backwards. Instead, we ought to act our …
Darryl Dash provides the following link to Gordon-Conwell Seminary’s audio recordings of Dr. Timothy Keller’s lecture series Preaching to the Heart on MP3 CD for $25US. I imagine these will be collected in book form these days, but when I’m financial next week I’ll intending to secure a set. With postage to Australia they’ll cost …
For you fans of Tim Keller’s preaching, (you know who you are), from Andy Naselli’s blog: Dennis E. Johnson summarizes three central emphases of Tim Keller‘s homiletic approach to illustrate how “the gospel changes everything” in “an approach to evangelistic, edificatory redemptive-historical preaching” (Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures [Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian …
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