You Must Be Lowly, To Enter The Heights of Heaven
“Be humbled, walk softly; down with your topsail. Stoop, stoop! It is a low entry to go in at heaven’s gates.” – Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ.
Humility = True Freedom
“Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue (cf. Col. 2:18, 23). Even “humble” attitudes can be masks of pride. The English, it has been said, take pride in not praising themselves! Rather, humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in …
China Believes Christianity is Good for the World
Is Christianity good for the world? Obviously Christians would agree that it is, but even China believes that there is some good that has come into the world from Christianity. A recent article in the Christian Post Reporter reports that atheistic China sees a link between the Christian faith and economic success. The Reporter article …
Sarcasm in the Christian Life
Doug Wilson is a model of responsible discourse. With entire books dedicated, not only to debate and responsible discourse, but even to sarcasm’s role in responsible discourse (A Serrated Edge: A Brief Defense of Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking), Wilson is a case study in discourse. Wilson sees satire as a tool that God has …
Why VBS Matters
Vacation Bible School is a big deal to our church (www.malvernhill.org). So big, in fact, that some folks in our community who do not attend our church plan their vacations around our VBS. So big that last night (Monday) we had 100 more people than we had for the same night of VBS last year. …
Fantastic 4 Book Deals
Cheap Kindle Books from Steve McCoy. A number of Kindle books are really cheap right now. I don’t necessarily recommend every book on this list, but I put the ones I felt you would be most interested in, even if you disagree with the authors. Kindle edition of The Millenials by Thom and Jess Rainer. …
Monday Musings
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters, and syllables uncomposed, are no better than nonsense. He who …
The Ethic of Bin Laden
A recent article from Abdel Bari Atwan on the CNN website explores Why Bin Laden was Radicalized. It was very interesting for me to learn that Bin Laden was not always as radical as the world has come to know him. It was also intriguing to follow Atwan’s arguments about what it is that actually …
Book Review: Preaching that Changes Lives
Preaching that Changes Lives Author: Michael Fabarez Publisher and Date: Wipf and Stock, 2005 Rank (1-10): 8 *Rank 1-10, with 1 meaning “waste of time” and 10 meaning “must read.” THESIS OF THE BOOK : To encourage and empower preachers to preach sermons that not only convey information about the Bible, but that also …