There’s nothing more disheartening to me than to have the expectation that I’m going to hear the Bible preached and then to hear a talk full of life principles and moralisms with a few Bible references thrown in for good measure. This article goes on at length about what Gospel and Bible centered preaching should …
“The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings actually comport themselves in crises, but simply how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true. But it is lower than either of those arts, …
Anything by Carl Trueman is worth reading. C.J. Mahaney conducts an interview with Trueman on the Sovereign Grace Ministries blog. Read Part One here and Part Two here. Among other questions, Mahaney asks: “What single bit of counsel has made the most significant difference in your leadership?” Trueman answers: “Again, I have to plead to …
Ed Stetzer is worried that a lack of precision about the term ‘missional’ is going to see division among people who share fundamental truths about salvation. (Missing The Missional Mark) The demarcation always seems to fall on whether the works that flow from salvation or the truth that brings salvation are the primary work of …
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