This past Sunday I preached on tithing and stewardship from Psalm 24. The earth is the Lord’s, and the Fullness thereof; the world and those who dwell therein. After that sermon, I had several people thank me for “preaching on the tough subjects,” but that’s not why I preach on money. Before that sermon, God …
“A faithful minister will…never allow anything to be credited to him, or his office, which belongs to his divine Master. He will say like Paul, “we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus, the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.” (2 Cor. 4:5.) To commend Christ dying, and rising again for the ungodly–to make …
I love to read and I love to preach, so as you can imagine, books on preaching are usually very good experiences for me. With that in mind, I was very anxious to jump into this book and to process all that Darrell Johnson had to say about The Glory of Preaching. Unfortunately, I was …
The Rise of Evangelicalism by Mark Noll chronicles the beginnings of evangelical Christianity during the first Great Awakening in the Eighteenth Century through the ministries of Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley, William Wilberforce, and others. Noll does a great job of objectively identifying both the spiritual issues that led to great outpourings …
A fellow student at North Greenville University posted this well known C.S. Lewis quote on Facebook earlier today: I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ …
“Furthermore, an ultimatum should be used in our message, citing the judgment of God on the unrepentant. This is the only effective means that will cause a fleeing man to surrender to Christ. Judgment is the reality he cannot escape if he persists in fleeing from Christ, and therefore, it has great force in causing …