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Yesterday’s post introduced Tim Keller’s article, “The Centrality of the Gospel,” which we are reading for our discussion group at Tim Hortons this Saturday. Here is another excerpt from this article which elaborates on how both moralism and relativism are thieves who steal Gospel joy and power.
The moralism-religion thief. How does moralism/religion steal joy and [...]

F. F. Bruce on “When is a Gospel not a Gospel?” Very helpful read, especially in light of Champ’s earlier post today.
Cheering on the resurgence of Calvinism in mainstream Evangelicalism.
I wouldn’t meddle like this, but then again, my name is not John Piper.
An older article demonstrating the length that some churches go to extend [...]

Nearly every Saturday morning a number from our church meet at a local Tim Hortons to sip coffee and discuss the same article or chapter we’ve read during the previous week. This week’s article is “The Centrality of the Gospel” by Tim Keller—a penetrating discussion of how to apply the Gospel to everyday life. Since [...]

Today’s F&J has a focus on aesthetics as the Catholic church responds to Western culture in general and to American culture in particular, especially during Benedict XVI’s latest trip to America.
This article in The Australian highlights a new work by Tracy Rowland focusing on the theology of Jospeh Ratzinger. While the work [...]

The text for this week’s sermon was Ecclesiastes 11:1-8. At this point in the book, the Sage is starting to wind down to his conclusion, so he begins to get rather proverbial with a short burst of staccato-like aphorisms. Since one cannot rid life of its inherent enigmas, then one must despair and [...]

When my father was a young man, he and his brother-in-law were walking through some trails in the mountains of North Carolina. They weren’t dressed for hiking. My dad was just giving my uncle a tour of the area near where we lived.
When they came to a large creek, my dad simply started to wade [...]

Last Sunday I preached on Ecclesiastes 10. I asked the children in the congregation to keep their ears tuned for at least three little animals (there is a fourth larger animal) in the chapter. The power of these little beasts to wreak havoc is breathtaking, along with the sheer arbitrariness of the whole [...]

People are sheeple. Much to my consternation the masses fall for quackery.
Naselli’s list of T4G’s 2008 MP3s. Earlier today I was with a group of pastors that attended T4G and all spoke highly of the conference. There was apparently a balanced mix of scholarship, practical teaching, good fellowship, and God-centered worship.
Earth first! [...]

Ecclesiastes 9:1-12
Some say a dolt is one that does not know
The joy of life in time and space on earth,
And yet the man most ignorant below
Is dead, his keen mind buried under turf.
This universal fate befalling man,
Like snaring birds or netting fish with ease,
Compels mad souls to grasp just what they can;
To live, and [...]

OK, let’s admit it. The Bible says nothing specifically about church “membership.”
And in a time when there was only one assembly in a single town, it’s completely understandable. If you were a first-century Christian and obeyed the command to assemble and associate with other believers, you were part of that church. If you didn’t like [...]

Jonah Goldberg made an appearance at Denison University in Granville, Ohio yesterday evening to promote his new book, Liberal Fascism. There was a fairly small crowd scattered around a tight auditorium on the fourth floor of Slayter Hall, and those of us that were present found ourselves wondering if the event had been well [...]

This Sunday our church family will gather around the Lord’s Table. In his first letter to the believers at Corinth, Paul tells us how we should and should not celebrate this feast of fellowship (1 Corinthians 11:23-24). Since local churches in Paul’s day often gathered together to meet in individual homes, it wasn’t uncommon for [...]

Just a couple of thoughts regarding Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a movie about academia’s censorship of alternative hypotheses to Darwinian evolution in the classroom and elsewhere.
First, what the movie is not: it is not meant to be a thorough explanation of the theory of Intelligent Design (ID), so don’t expect to walk [...]

I apologize for the long absence, but life has been busy of late (and will continue to be). I’ve got a series of classes to complete for the Air Force if I want to pin on Lt. Colonel, class notes for a course on the Book of Acts to prepare for translation and teaching [...]

Knowing Sin; Knowing Redemption (from Genesis 3:1-7 with a nod to C. S. Lewis’ Voyage of the Dawn Treader).
Once there lived a mighty king. He was old and wise but still very strong. Even as an old man he could outrun the fastest of his soldiers and bend a bow made of bronze. [...]

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