A new review of Real Marriage by former members of Mars Hill that raises some concerns with the tone, not the content. From the beginning of this book, Mark has made passing references to Grace’s mistakes and abuse that lead to difficulty in their marriage, but what about him? He had been in previous sexual …
What is the secret to John Piper’s success at Bethlehem Baptist Church? So I was called to Bethlehem Baptist and began in June 1980. I was thirty-four years old, and there were three hundred older people and almost no youth. What I have done is try to preach the whole counsel of God from his …
Kathleen Nielsen on never retreating in the Christian life. We’re going forward, and no orders to retreat can possibly be official. Germany has repeatedly sent men into the Allied ranks perfectly disguised as Allied officers, speaking English or French perfectly, to order a retreat, just as the Devil sends the same kind of people into …
Would Jesus visit with our churches and discover that our definition of healthy fits his definition of healthy? We love, but do we love as God loves? Jonathan Leeman says, “We assume not that God is love but that love is God.” The church of Christ is a community where her members love each other …
I feel bad when I have to give a book a bad review. I don’t feel too bad if I perceive it to be harmful to the Christian community, but I do feel bad when the book is not necessarily harmful, it’s just painful. I feel bad because I know that an author somewhere spent …
Gambling is once again in the spotlight as its expansion is being considered in many states. Albert Mohler has written a great article on its dangers and the appropriate Christian response. According to some estimates, as much as one-third of the nation’s money supply now moves through the gambling industry each year. Looking at a …
Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of …
I heard recently of a pastor who was censured by his deacons because he refused to allow a woman to sing in the church choir who was living in open and unrepentant sin. Odd to consider that a group of leaders who are supposed to use the Bible as their guide opposed the biblical mandate …
Father saves his five children from a burning apartment. Channel 2 Action News reported that the father got two children, including a newborn, out of the apartment, gave them to neighbors, then went back into the burning building to rescue his three other children. This is a pretty good deal from WTSBOOKS. Check out Paul …
About a year ago I received Luke: The Gospel of Amazement from the Biblical Imagination Series by IVP Books and yesterday I received the latest installment in this series, Mark: The Gospel of Passion. Michael Card wrote these and there are books on Matthew and John forthcoming in the next couple of years. Honestly, when …