Reformation Day Symposium - 2008 Edition —
Today is Reformation Day—the 491st anniversary of the day Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg’s Schlosskirke.
Labels: history, tim challies
08:40 MT | 0 Comments
$elf-Piercing —
Our only hope in times like these will be contentment—hearts satisfied with the riches of grace, hearts thankful for what Christ has accomplished on the cross, and hearts hopeful for the greater promises to be fulfilled in the future when our food will be in the form of a feast and our clothes will include a crown. Until then, we have food, and clothes, and the One who was pierced for our transgressions. We have enough to be daily joyful.
Labels: Christian life, tony reinke
21:20 MT | 0 Comments
John "Rudolph" Piper Encourages Us To Lead the Lord's Sleigh This Christmas —
Equipped with only a red ball for a nose and his fingers for antlers, John “Rudolph” Piper recently previewed this year’s Christmas theme for Bethlehem Baptist Church: “Don’t Waste Your Flight.”
Labels: Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, john piper, Tominthebox
17:37 MT | 0 Comments
College at Bethlehem Baptist Church —
Did you know that you can complete your freshman year of college through The Bethlehem Institute (TBI) at Bethlehem Baptist Church?
Labels: education
17:18 MT | 0 Comments
I Love You This Much —
When we go no further and see ourselves as the ultimate object of Jesus' love, we raise ourselves far too high. We may inadvertently make Jesus' death a kind of idolatry.
Labels: Bad Theology, books, Purpose-Driven / Rick Warren, tim challies
10:37 MT | 0 Comments
Big news
— and when I say big, I mean really big. Huge. Enormous. (new link)
— and when I say big, I mean really big. Huge. Enormous. (new link)
Labels: Audio, john macarthur
12:00 MT | 2 Comments
So Much for Possibility Thinking —
You don't try to preach . . . what is sin and what isn't sin. A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love. 10:58 MT | 0 Comments
Christless Christianity —
It is not heresy as much as silliness that is killing us softly.
Labels: books, Michael Horton, tim challies
10:47 MT | 0 Comments
Palin deserves our respect —
I cannot predict who will win the presidential campaign, but I already know who will lose big: all women. (HT) 10:43 MT | 0 Comments
Walk the Aisle —
Popularized by frontier camp meetings and Charles Finney's "anxious bench," the altar call became an evangelistic staple of American churches.
Labels: Evangelism / Missions, Finney, Synergism
10:18 MT | 0 Comments
What’s God Got to Do With It? —
Prosperity preachers are neither new nor unique in America, but the Osteens' version seems especially self-serving. (HT)
Labels: Joel Osteen, prosperity gospel
10:10 MT | 0 Comments
Bar Stool Economics —
A clever illustration of the American tax system.
Labels: economics
08:00 MT | 0 Comments
Gleanings from Job
#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11
#12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19 (click more for previous)
Labels: bible study/exposition, fred butler
09:51 MT | 0 Comments
The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama —
Warning: huge, slow-loading page. 09:43 MT | 0 Comments
Blogging in the name of the Lord: John Hendryx —
an interview of the man behind Monergism.com.
Labels: john hendryx
09:17 MT | 0 Comments
How Not to Help the Poor —
If there's one lesson from the "war on poverty" programs the US government instituted in the 1970s it is that government programs were the primary source of the destruction of the black family and the erosion of the dignity of the black men in particular in low-income urban areas. Good intentions ain't enough.
If there's one lesson from the "war on poverty" programs the US government instituted in the 1970s it is that government programs were the primary source of the destruction of the black family and the erosion of the dignity of the black men in particular in low-income urban areas. Good intentions ain't enough.
Labels: economics, Politics, video
22:08 MT | 0 Comments
Top Ten Ways to Write Bad Worship Songs —
Why clutter up our songs with clear, specific, and compelling descriptions of God’s character and works? Why not just emote and talk about how passionate we are?
Labels: Bob Kauflin, music/arts, Worship
09:09 MT | 0 Comments
The Presidential Election That Almost Was . . . Or Why It's Difficult for Me to Vote 1, 2 —
Democrats have given us the first African-American presidential nominee. That's historic. Republicans have offered us the oldest presidential nominee. That's no less historic. Both candidacies prompt serious questions about who we are and the meaning of life. Dare we think about these things?
Labels: Politics, Thabiti Anyabwile
08:37 MT | 0 Comments
Politics, Activism, and the Gospel —
We can’t protect or expand the cause of Christ by human political and social activism, no matter how great or sincere the efforts.
Labels: john macarthur, Politics and Religion
08:32 MT | 0 Comments
“What Kind of Wisdom Do You Have?” James 3:13-18 —
Pastor Steve continues his series on the book of James. This series looks at the book of James as a series of tests of the genuineness of the professing Christian’s faith. Thus, each sermon’s title will be stated as a question.
Labels: Audio, bible study/exposition, steve weaver
08:07 MT | 0 Comments
Those Arminian texts? —
"And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself." - John 12:32
Labels: john samson, Reformed Theology
18:43 MT | 0 Comments
The Pressure on a Sermon Is Always Downward —
. . . biblically every time revival breaks out among God's people it follows rediscovery and recommitment to hearing the word of God. If we want revival among God's people, we must take seriously reading, preaching, and hearing the word of God. And, guess what? It takes time to do that well.
Labels: Ministry, Thabiti Anyabwile
18:24 MT | 0 Comments
The Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism —
It’s one thing for a NT passage to bring a clearer understanding of an OT passage by providing more details or by fitting more pieces into the overall puzzle. But it’s quite another to use the NT to completely change the meaning of the OT as communicated to its original audience.
Labels: hermeneutics, matt waymeyer
10:29 MT | 0 Comments
Reading the Bible as Literature —
Three primary modes of writing converge in the Bible: theological, historical, and literary. Overwhelmingly, theology and history are embodied in literary form.
Labels: Bibliology, Leland Ryken
09:23 MT | 0 Comments
It’s the Economy, Stupid! —
How Many Americans want to Live in Socialism? . . . Just in terms of his economic policies, Obama will be as bad, if not worse than Lyndon B. Johnson or Jimmy Carter.
Labels: economics, Politics, ron gleason
08:47 MT | 0 Comments
No Tote Bags! —
“Darn! Four more years of a Republican President!” . . . “That’s it. We are moving to Canada!” (HT)
Labels: Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, Politics, video
13:06 MT | 0 Comments
Lies and Marxism in the 2008 Election —
Mr. Obama has promised somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 trillion in new spending, plus universal health care.
Labels: economics, Politics, ron gleason
12:50 MT | 0 Comments
The Good Ol' Hockey Game —
"But it wasn't really hockey was it? I mean . . . I still don't know anything about the game."
Labels: Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, pragmatic/seeker-sensitive, tim challies
14:09 MT | 0 Comments
Meet my Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandma
(an old but fascinating story) —
Things may be bad for us. They may be horrific. We may be in pain and our world may be shattered, with no hope in sight. But though we can't always see it, and though we don't always understand, God will be faithful.
Labels: Christian life, Neil Shay
09:40 MT | 0 Comments
“Do You Have Living Faith?” James 2:14-26
“Do You Control Your Tongue?” James 3:1-12
Labels: Audio, bible study/exposition, steve weaver
17:21 MT | 0 Comments
Robert P. George: "Voting for the Most Extreme Pro-Abortion Political Candidate in American History Is Not the Way to Save Unborn Babies" —
Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. . . . Yet there are Catholics and Evangelicals—even self-identified pro-life Catholics and Evangelicals—who aggressively promote Obama’s candidacy and even declare him the preferred candidate from the pro-life point of view.
Labels: bioethics, justin taylor, Politics
16:01 MT | 0 Comments
Church growth Amish style —
The number of Amish has grown 84% since 1992, to a total of some 231,000.
Labels: Gene Veith, pragmatic/seeker-sensitive
12:21 MT | 1 Comments
James 3 —
A short film from Desiring God starring you and [ahem] me.
A short film from Desiring God starring you and [ahem] me.
Labels: Christian life, video
10:11 MT | 0 Comments
It's Generally a Good Idea to Follow the Instructions of Angels Precisely —
We don’t hear any more about Lot after Genesis 19. We know nothing further of him except one thing. He was a righteous man according to 2 Peter 2. Like me, he was saved by grace, and like me, he made quite a few compromises, and we will be better off if the desolate consequences he reaped never fade from our memories.
Labels: bible study/exposition, Christian life, Neil Shay
09:31 MT | 0 Comments
If George Bailey had never lived —
. . . we wouldn’t be having this financial meltdown! Washington Post columnist Ross Douthat blames our current financial meltdown on George Bailey, of Frank Capra’s masterpiece It’s a Wonderful Life . . .
Labels: economics, Gene Veith
08:53 MT | 0 Comments
what was your point, again? —
But in their passion to dismantle those that they oppose, they are all three perfectly willing to use any and every issue that they disagree with, regardless of its accuracy or relevance to the main point.
Labels: Ministry
07:54 MT | 0 Comments
The Imputation of Righteousness —
The righteousness that is imputed to me is real righteousness.
Labels: daniel van de laar, soteriology
07:51 MT | 0 Comments
Bad love, bad end - and the Cross —
Solomon could not have known all the misery that would come from his actions. But he knew it was rebellion against God. And, knowing that, he knew all he needed to know.
Labels: Christian life, Dan Phillips
07:47 MT | 0 Comments
The Real Obama I, II, III —
The old phrase, "a man of high ideals but no principles," is one that applies all too painfully to Barack Obama today. His words expressing lofty ideals may appeal to the gullible but his long history of having no principles makes him a danger of the first magnitude in the White House.
Labels: Politics, thomas sowell
06:53 MT | 0 Comments
Why William Ayers Matters —
. . . the collection of characters like Ayers and his "crazy uncle" Rev. Wright show us who it has been shaping Obama's philosophical principles on life, leadership, and now government. That is why Ayers matters. Certainly Obama repudiates his violent terrorist past, but they certainly share the basic presuppositions which drive their left politics. That should be a concern for anyone with a bit of common sense.
Labels: fred butler, Politics
17:25 MT | 0 Comments
Scott Ott Answers 2nd Presidential Debate Questions —
Brokaw: All right, we've come to the last question. . . . "What don't you know and how will you learn it?"
Scott Ott: I don’t know the limits of what God can do with a nation that’s fully devoted to Him. I hope to learn by devoting myself.
Labels: media, Politics, Scott Ott
17:15 MT | 0 Comments
I'm Sorry, So Sorry -- "False Apology Syndrome" —
A physician by profession, Theodore Dalrymple has diagnosed one of the most public ills of our age -- "False Apology Syndrome."
Labels: Albert Mohler
16:57 MT | 0 Comments
From the Doctor’s Desk: What the Birth Control Pill Is Designed to Do —
The 1999 Physicians Desk Reference reads . . .
Labels: bioethics, Hank Balch
12:37 MT | 0 Comments
My transcript of last night’s debate —
Barack Obama: I’m a Communist. John McCain: I’m a Socialist.
Labels: Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, jeremy weaver, media, Politics
11:05 MT | 0 Comments
SNL Bailout skit —
WARNING: This is not a Christian site. Don't expect it to look like one. (HT)
WARNING: This is not a Christian site. Don't expect it to look like one. (HT)
Labels: Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, media, Politics, video
14:19 MT | 0 Comments
Look Who's Irrational Now —
The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us. (HT)
Labels: Atheism
10:30 MT | 0 Comments
Why Elder Rule? (Part 1), (Part 2) —
. . . adapted from the Grace Church Distinctive on Biblical Eldership. (click more for previous)
Labels: church, ecclesiology, pulpit magazine
10:24 MT | 0 Comments
Should we use altar calls in our evangelism? —
It may be something of a surprise for most Christians in our day to learn that the "altar call" is very much a modern day invention in Church history, made famous by the heretic Charles Finney.
Labels: Evangelism / Missions, Finney, john samson, Synergism, video
08:59 MT | 0 Comments
E.T. (LINK FIXED) —
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Labels: Bad Theology, Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, video
18:04 MT | 2 Comments
Biden's Financial History Disqualifies Him For High Office —
If a candidate for high office does a spectacularly poor job in managing his own family's finances, why on earth should we trust him in a national leadership position at a time of acute economic crisis?
Labels: economics, michael medved, Politics
15:23 MT | 0 Comments
The End of the Nation? Russia Chooses Death Over Life —
Reports out of Russia indicate that the recent military clash with Georgia may have represented something more like desperation than opportunism.
Labels: Albert Mohler, bioethics
15:14 MT | 0 Comments
McLaren, Three Birds, and No Perspective —
Very interesting.
Labels: justin taylor, postmodernism/emergent
12:25 MT | 0 Comments
If Divine Election is True then What Need is There to Preach the Gospel? —
No Calvinist has ever taught that God works to save people apart from the word of God, missionaries and preachers (see John 10) and that we Christians can just nonchalantly wait for God to save people apart from the concurrent use of means.
Labels: Evangelism / Missions, john hendryx, Reformed Theology
12:19 MT | 0 Comments
pays off at 2:22 —
Mr. Turk invites you to insult him.
Labels: Frank Turk, Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, video
12:04 MT | 0 Comments
59 Percent Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress41 Percent Would Skip the Voting Part Entirely —
According to the latest Rasmussen poll, in the wake of the financial-sector bailout bill passed last week, 59 percent of Americans would vote the entire Congress out of office. The other 41 percent would achieve the same result without the voting part . . .
Labels: economics, Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, Politics, Scott Ott
11:39 MT | 0 Comments
The Burden of Perverse Assumptions —
My mother has often remarked that men, and Christian men in particular, go through life lonely--forsaken by other men who should be their friends. And I think she is right. I wonder if we, too, bear the burden of perverse assumptions. Maybe we, too, from our early days feel the need to prove that we are not homosexual. And we do this by fleeing emotional or spiritual intimacy with other men, assuming that such relationships are unworthy of men--real men.
Labels: Cultural depravity, tim challies
10:14 MT | 0 Comments
The Value of Systematic Theology —
My prayer is that we all come to see that any culturally relevant worldview we present and defend must be one build upon a robust systematic theology.
Labels: dead theologians, doctrine, postmodernism/emergent, tony reinke
19:16 MT | 0 Comments
Satan and Jesus in God’s Courtroom —
Satan is the great accuser of the saints. Jesus is the great defender of the saints. They are in heaven waging a relentless courtroom battle for our souls.
Labels: christ, david gunderson, soteriology, theology
18:42 MT | 0 Comments
Satan Got Saved —
Well, now I’ve heard everything . . .
Labels: Bad Theology, Randy Brandt
13:40 MT | 0 Comments
Shallow Knowledge —
Give me an hour and a decent internet connection and I can be an expert on anything. . . . I’m a 21st-century man. I will find it, I will glance at it, and then I will know it.
Labels: Christian life, david gunderson
08:10 MT | 0 Comments
Hard Hearted Hearing —
While it is certainly true that we must be doers not simply hearers of the Word, we cannot be doers if we are not hearers.
Labels: bible study/exposition, christ, jd hatfield
14:18 MT | 0 Comments
Amended Rescue Allows Buyout of Other Bad Decisions —
“It’s like a giant morning-after pill,” said one House Republican who opposed the initial bill but plans to support the new package. “From now on, when you do something stupid, you just pop the pill, purge and flush…the federal government takes care of the rest.”
Labels: economics, Humor/Entertaining/Interesting, Politics, Scott Ott
07:55 MT | 0 Comments
The Bail-Out —
. . . Sowell asserts that “If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were free market institutions they could not have gotten away with their risky financial practices because no one would have bought their securities without the implicit assumption that the politicians would bail them out.”
Labels: economics, Politics, ron gleason
17:00 MT | 0 Comments
Martin Luther on Harsh Language —
Christians should be a very firm, though courteous, people. Courtesy should be coupled with seriousness, and seriousness with courtesy, according to the pattern of the life of Christ supplied in the Gospel.
Labels: Church and Culture, dead theologians, pulpit magazine
18:02 MT | 0 Comments
“Do You Have Respect of Persons?” James 2:1-13 —
This series looks at the book of James as a series of tests of the genuineness of the professing Christian’s faith. Thus, each sermon’s title will be stated as a question.
Labels: Audio, bible study/exposition, steve weaver
10:19 MT | 0 Comments
The Best Defense —
The best way to protect my heart and life is to be constantly on the offensive.
Labels: Christian life, tim challies
10:16 MT | 0 Comments
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