Why We Should Preach Christ in Every Sermon – Fred Malone: "There are two thoughts I would offer in answer to this: (1) Biblical Hermeneutics, and (2) Biblical Example." Should We Preach Christ in Every Sermon? – True preaching is not: 1. An expositional sermon, even from a New Testament text, without mentioning Christ except … [Read more…]
Church Discipline: The Neglected Third Mark of the Church – "Biblical church discipline is a culture of accountability, growth, forgiveness, and grace that should permeate our churches. Each member of a church has a responsibility to help others as they struggle with sin—not through judgment and criticism, but rather with gentleness and an eye toward … [Read more…]
My husband is not my soul mate. | The Art in Life – Excellent advice for our young adults when considering marriage. "There is no biblical basis to indicate that God has one soul mate for you to find and marry." Simple Evangelism – "But how can other members of the church easily engage in … [Read more…]
Teaching Children the Bible – Author Sally Lloyd-Jones often asks children "How many people here sometimes think that if you aren’t good, God will stop loving you?" Almost without fail they raise their hands. These children think they have to keep the rules or God won’t love them. They think if they mess up God … [Read more…]
Minority Status: How Are Christians to Respond to Their Developing Cultural Displacement? – "We should also remember out history. It is precisely those periods of time when the Church held the greatest degree of institutionalized dominance that she wandered from the truth and became corrupted from within. In proclaiming the truth, perhaps a better position … [Read more…]
Christianity & Liberalism – In my little book, Christianity and Liberalism, 1923, I tried to show that the issue in the Church of the present day is not between two varieties of the same religion, but, at bottom, between two essentially different types of thought and life. There is much interlocking of the branches, but … [Read more…]
The Most Important Message – "Well, we don’t need to speculate because Paul tells us right here in 1 Corinthians 15 what he shared with the Corinthians as being “of first importance”: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according … [Read more…]
Are You Worshiping the Idol of ‘Open Options’? – "But there comes a point when pausing becomes procrastination, when waiting is no longer wise. There comes a point when not to choose becomes idolatry. It becomes a lack of trust in the God who ordains the decisions we will make, gathers up the frayed ends, … [Read more…]
Bringing Marriage Back to Earth – Brian Tallman: "Common critiques of contemporary marriage in the West often include the recognition that marriage has become too sentimentalized. In light of Calvin’s comments, I wonder if the church isn’t guilty of making marriage too spiritual. That’s not to say that there aren’t Christian ethics that relate to … [Read more…]
Tabular Comparison of Westminster Confession of Faith and 1689 London Baptist Confession – Can you catch sin like a cold? – Barnabas Piper: "So many Christians live in cultural quarantine, shutting themselves off from what they see as sinful influences. They avoid 'bad' people and even places. They talk about those people and places like … [Read more…]