Today, many Americans will be celebrating Halloween. However, October 31st is significant to Christians for another reason. This is the date that we look back to as the official beginning of the Protestant Reformation. For many centuries, the Roman Catholic Church had grown corrupt, and began to elevate church traditions as an authority over and above the Word …
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John Piper recently wrote about the importance of having a prophetic love for our people. Oh, that we would be found faithful in loving our people, by speaking the truth to them about sin! Below is his original post in it’s entirety. The Pain of Prophetic Love October 27, 2008 | By: John Piper Category: Commentary Prophetic …
Is Jesus The Only Savior? Is a scholarly response to the questions constantly raised around the claims of exclusivity. Ronald Nash stands firm as an exclusivist and affirms through biblical testimony that Jesus is the only Savior for mankind. In the first part of the book, Nash addresses the arguments of pluralists who claim that God …
Theology of the Reformers by Timothy George is not a new book, but it is a necessary book, for in it, George does not merely trace the biographical information of the personalities involved in the great reformation, but rather he examines the theology behind each man that led him to react as he did toward …
I was introduced to FIve Leading Refomers(written by Christopher Catherwood) by a friend who knew that I was planning to preach through the five solas of the Reformation during the month of October. Christopher Catherwood is not a name that I knew and to my knowledge, I do not own another book published by Christian …
In 1978 Richard Foster penned Celebration of Discipline, which has become somewhat of a classic book in the field of Spiritual Disciplines. After thirty years, Celebration contines to be a widely read text on the discipline of the spiritual life. I personally found myself reading it as an assignment for a study group I am …
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. Job 5:16 Today is Blog Action Day, where thousands of people around the world join together with the “voices” of their blogs to raise awareness for a specific issue. This year, the issue at hand is poverty and we join with thousands, perhaps millions, of …
It is rare for history, especially church history, to be appetizing reading for most people. Historians seem to have the uncanny ability to make even the most exciting events in history something much less than enjoyable when reading about them. Stephen J. Nichols, however, has done a great job at reversing this trend with his …
Recently, I’ve read some debates revolving around doctrine and evangelism in the blogosphere (ie. JD Greear, Timmy Brister) and in scholarly journals (The Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry). The unfortunate issue in debates on doctrine and evangelism is that most seem to focus either on preaching (and teaching) strong doctrine or on being evangelistic. The fact of of the matter …