Why Celebrate Pentecost?
Read Peter Leithart’s answer to the question. Good thoughts before we celebrate tomorrow!
Book Review: What He Must Be (…If He Wants To Marry My Daughter)
As a Father of a new baby girl (Aubrey is 4 months old), I am grateful to Voddie Baucham for writing this book. What He Must Be is a how to guide on raising boys to be men and raising daughters to look for the right kind of man in their lives. In his pointed way, …
Book Review: Staff Your Church For Growth
I was excited to read this book as a pastor because I always want to know what I can do to help our church to move forward and staffing is always a difficult issue to deal with. Staff Your Church For Growth is a book that pastors should read early in their ministry because it …
Monday Musings
“In a sinful world, giving offense is one of the central tasks of preaching. When the offending word is brought to bear against those who have shown themselves to be unteachable, they are written off by that offending word. When this happens, or there is a threat of it happening, the natural temptation is to …
Monday Musings
“Sheep are to be kind to sheep. Shepherds are to be kind to sheep. But if a shepherd is kind to wolves, that is just another way to let them savage the sheep. Kindness to sheep is hostility to wolves. Kindness to wolves is hostility to sheep. All attempts to get the wolves and sheep …
Monday Musings
“For us as missionaries in culture, the tip of the spear for our war against Satan, sin, and death is the sermon, if rightly preached with authority for the purpose of gathering God’s people for instruction before sending them out on mission with passion.” -Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears,Vintage Church (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008), 101.
Book Review: Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)
I heard and read alot about Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), long before I ever actually read the book. In all honesty, though I am interested in the subject matter (that of the Emergent Church Movement), I had my doubts that the book could live up to the hype. I …
Free Book Winner!
The winner of our book giveaway from last week is Terry Corder from Jefferson (the middle of nowhere), South Carolina. The book is God is Able! But Am I Willing? by Dr. Greg Mathis. You can read our review of Dr. Mathis’ book here. Congratulations Terry. The rest of you be looking. We hope to do …
Knowing God
Knowing God is the consummate Christian classic. Over the last thirty plus years more than one million copies have been sold. In challenging believers to accept the greatest privilege and responsibility of the Christian life, learning to know God, J.I. Packer not only showed himself to be a great writer, but also a great theologian. …
What is Preaching?
According to John Piper, preaching is expository exultation. Words of wisdom from a man who has been preaching the Word for almost 30 years. Watch the video below, or read the transcript here.