Of course, nearly everyone loves John Piper (well they should at least). History will show Piper to be one of the most influential pastor/theologians of our time just as current students of theology agree today. Last week, Dr. Piper posted an open letter of thanks to his congregation, staff, and elders at Bethlehem Baptist Church …
As we have just come through the Easter season, it was good for me to spend time considering the cross upon which our Savior bled and the accomplishments upon that cross. J.I. Packer and Mark Dever have done a great job defining and explaining Penal Substitution in their fine book In My Place Condemned He …
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Bart Ehrman colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest Copied from Denny Burk: For those of you who may have forgotten, Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar at the University of North Carolina. I have written about him numerous times on …
If he did not rise, but is still dead, how is it that he routs and persecutes and overthrows the false gods, whom unbelievers think to be alive, and the evil spirits whom they worship? For where Christ is named, idolatry is destroyed and the fraud of evil spirits is exposed; indeed, no such spirit …
THAT’S EASTER Death to Life from St Helen’s Church on Vimeo. HT: Justin Taylor
C.J. Mahaney’s, Christ Our Mediator, is a wonderful short mediation on the glorious cross of Jesus Christ. He quotes his “historical hero, Charles Spurgeon, who wrote, ‘Abide hard by the cross and search the mystery of His wounds” (12). In chapters three and four, Mahaney writes about how Jesus saved us from God’s wrath on …
I recently finished Preaching Christ, by Charles P. McIlvaine, who was a pastor and eventually the chaplain at West Point, in addition to a variety of other accomplishments. This book was filled with quotable quotes from McIlvaine, who authored this initially as a charge delivered to the clergy of the Diocese of Ohio in June …
That’s My King! from Albert Martin on Vimeo.
“He will preach best who loves most. His preaching will go most to the heart, and will be attended with most of the ‘demonstration of the Spirit’ who, in all he says and does, is most constrained by the love of Christ, dictating, animating, sanctifying, with tenderness and patient earnestness of his Master’s mind, his …