Robert
This past week, I preached at my church’s “Traditions” worship service on Sunday evening geared toward our older generation. I was thrilled to see about a dozen younger faces attend this service for the first time. One couple in particular sat on the front row. They looked “young and hip” (especially for this service where …
In his classic collection of essays, God in the Dock, C.S. Lewis emphasized the importance of reading old books. He compared reading only new or recent books to joining a conversation at 11:00 pm that actually started at 8:00 pm. I do not know about you, but I have embarrassed myself numerous times walking up …
In light of David’s posts on Preaching Christ, we must also remember to center our preaching of Christ on his cross. John Stott wrote, The fact that a cross became the Christian symbol, and that Christians stubornly refused, in spite of the ridicule, to discard it in favor of something less offensive, can have only on …