If you are struggling to find enough workers to staff your nursery or teach Sunday School, you are not alone. Even Jesus recognized that the workers are few. Here are some truths I remind our church family of in the…
Chalcedon, Chaos, and How Things Went South in North Africa
A failure to unify around sound doctrine has devastating consequences. North Africa church’s rejection of the Definition of Chalcedon sowed the seeds for the beginning of the Coptic church and the eventual loss of region to Islam. The beheading of…
John R.W. Stott: Prayer Ditches Jesus Taught Us to Dodge
On the Lord’s teaching about prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, Stott comments: We see again that the method of Jesus is to pain a vivid contrast between two alternatives, in order to indicate his way the more plainly.…
C.S. Lewis: How Materialism / Atheism Commits Intellectual Suicide
In Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes (191) Nancy Pearcey shows how C.S. Lewis argued against the Atheists’ ability to defend the possibility of thinking. If minds are wholly dependent on brains, and brains…
Forgiveness: Clarifying Concepts from Michael Boys
Pastor Michael Boys of Christ Community Church in Houston recently preached one of the best sermons I have heard on forgiveness. You can listen here. I would encourage you to listen for yourself. Be prepared to notice several points: Notice…
Brit Hume on Abortion
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Deep Doctrines are Closely Connected to Everyday Life
In his short essay, “Christian Doctrine and Life,” The theologian John Murray stressed that the great doctrines of the Christian life have implications for everyday life. Consider these texts: But it shall not be so among you. But whoever…
The Paradox of Prayer
And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Matthew 6:7 When we read Jesus’ admonition to not “heap up empty phrases” we…
John Murray: The Pattern of Sanctification
“Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of…
A Biblical Bullet Fired at the Life of the Listener
One of the points I stress to our church family in an ongoing way is that a sermon should be a biblical bullet fired at the life of the listener. In the preaching from our pulpit, we are praying that…