Month: February 2010

Sale on Commentaries @WTS Books

Westminster Bookstore (P4P’s favorite bookstore) is currently having a great sale on the excellent Pillar New Testament Commentary Series.  Until March 9th, they are offering an Extra 10% off of EVERY Pillar volume when you purchase 2 or more.  The price automatically adjusts when you place the books in your shopping cart.  That comes out …

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Analyzing Your Preaching

I believe that preaching should be analyzed so that preaching can be better. I believe this in my own life and ministry, and whether I know you or not, I believe it to be true in your ministry as well. Of course, there are many ways to critique and analyze and watching myself on video …

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God’s Principal Instrument

“Let us beware of despising preaching. In every age of the Church, it has been God’s principal instrument for the awakening of sinners and the edifying of saints. The days when there has been little or no preaching have been days when there has been little or no good done in the Church. Let us …

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reFocus on The Gospel and The Great Commission

I’m excited to be a part of reFocus next Tuesday morning at the SC Upstate Evangelism Conference. reFocus emerged from some conversations and visioning between me and Jay Hardwick, and what we believe to be the passion of many other young pastors in our state. In light of the work of the GCR Task Force …

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Book Review: Revival and Revivalism

Revival and Revivalism:The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism by Iain Murray is a book about evangelicalism much more than simply revivals and revivalism. Though not at all what I would consier an objective approach to the subject, Murray aptly handles the period of 1750-1858 with its leaders, revivals, spiritual outpourings and problems. Murray is …

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Preaching That Exposes

“Paul challenged the gods of the city of Ephesus (Acts 19:26), which led to such an alteration in the spending patterns of new converts that it changed the local economy.  That in turn touched off a riot led by local merchants.  Contemporary observers have often noted that modern Christians are just as materialistic as everyone …

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The Ultimate Apologetic

Michael Spencer, who writes at iMonk and is suffering with cancer has written a wonderful short blog on true apologetics. I’ve pasted it in its entirety below, but click over to his site for more of his excellent work. A brief word from Michael The ultimate apologetic is to a dying man. That is what …

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The Environment, The SBC, and The Need for Holistic Evangelism

In 1972 Henlee H. Barnette was a professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Barnette was also an avid opponent of biblical inerrancy and, it appears, of the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention. However, in that year, Barnette released, The Church and The Ecological Crisis, as, by his own admission, “an attempt to …

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Why I Hate The Great Commission

Recently, I laid in bed with my son reading books before he went off to sleep, the same as I always do. Then, of course, we say prayers and then its off to dream land for Wyatt. That night, a few weeks ago, I prayed for Wyatt and Aubrey and as I did so, I …

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