I’ve recently read three books that I feel would be worth your time as well and wanted to share those here. The first, on preaching, is Preaching the Cross, which comes out of the Together for The Gospel movement. Dever, Duncan, Mahaney, and Mohler combine with John MacArthur, John Piper, and R.C. Sproul to bring …
Recently, on a Wednesday night, I shared some thoughts about our responsibility as Christians to engage culture. Al Mohler has defined our (American) culture using seven characteristics, each of which begin with the word self. Self-fulfillment. We are a culture that seeks to satisfy ourselves, seen primarily in the triumph of the therapeutic culture. Self-help …
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher – George Whitefield
I tasked our new youth and discipleship pastor (Luke Tolbert) with helping me to develop some good stuff we could put into the hands of fathers in our church. Recently, I’ve been blessed to hear, on several occasions, “I want to lead my family like you talk about, but can you help me understand just …
What is the Gospel? Greg Gilbert begins his little book by asserting the fact that many Christians have assumed the gospel and have even experienced the gospel, but that they cannot clearly articulate what the gospel is. Enter Gilbert’s book. This little book is a fantastic primer on the gospel. We need to constantly be …
Justin Taylor has highlighted a new album by John Mark McMillan. See video of “Death in His Grave” below. Shaun Groves on John Mark McMillan new album, The Medicine: “I can’t recommend it highly enough. Beautiful, innovative, poetic, intelligent, subversive, theologically robust, sonic sweet tea and biscuits, transcendent.” Interesting statistics on young women and their …
I’m thankful for the resurgence of expository preaching in recent years. In fact, in He is Not Silent, Al Mohler has gone so far as to say that, “the only form of authentic Christian preaching is expository preaching.” But, there continues to be much confusion in many circles about what exactly expository preaching is. For …