Most often , Christians speak of fellowship as an activity or subjective experience. Yet, “fellowship” translates the Greek word “koinonia” and a better translation would be “invested partnership” or “a sharing together”: fellowship is an objective reality. John Stott explains:…
What is the Christian’s only comfort in life and death?
One of the most beautiful doctrinal statements ever written is the first question and answer of the Heidelberg catechism. Perhaps, read this aloud to your family at dinner time. Heidelberg Question 1. What is thy only comfort in life and…
Arousing ourselves to death
Kill this or it will kill you. Beat to death with a shovel if you have to as described here. Kill it in any case. Russell Moore writes about how churches should deal with the pornography epidemic: The couple will…
Rick Reilly: Shelter from the Storm
SI writer tells of a baseball team persevering after the tornado devastated their coach’s home: Baseball is all about getting home. But what happens when you get there and it’s gone? It happened to Hueytown (Ala.) High School baseball head…
Urban Legends: The Preacher’s Edition
Trevin Wax shares some “urban legends” that preachers have been guilty of sharing. For the record, I have been guilty of #2. You’ll have to click through to Trevin to see that one. Otherwise, I think I’m okay, at least…
Saved from God
R.C. Sproul: . . . I said, “Do you want to know what you are saved from? In a word, you are saved from God.” They just gasped and to this day when I attend that convention people come up…
Satan cannot touch us, but he can yell across the road
What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin. How can we live in it any longer (Romans 6:1-2) Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones explains the point of…