If you are looking for something to spend part of your free $50 gift certificate from WTSBOOKS on, let me suggest a new book just published in May, Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word, by Douglas A. Sweeney. Sweeney is himself an expert on Edwards and on The New England Theology that was …
“By expounding Scripture as a whole he was forced to deal with the Scriptural range of ideas. And, as an honest interpreter, he labored to represent the thought of the Bible faithfully. He had a horror of those who preached their own ideas in place of the gospel of the Bible: ‘When we enter the …
“When John Wesley was asked what he would do if he knew he were to die that night, he said that he would eat his supper, preach at the candlelight service, say his prayers, and go to bed. The monument to John and Charles Wesley in Westminster Abbey in London reads, ‘God buries his workmen, …
FREE BOOKS. Nothing gets my attention faster. This is a pretty simple and straight-forward deal. At stake is about $30 worth of free books and a $50 gift certificate from the good people at WTS BOOKS. The two free books are Total Church, by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis, and The Deliberate Church, by Mark …
Preaching the Word of God means preaching doctrine. It is inescapable. The late Ernest Reisinger wrote these words concerning the importance of doctrinal preaching: Some may call the doctrines dry bones. We must ask what kind of a body would that be which has flesh and blood but has no bones? Of course, if the …
“The Church must always be, if she is really to be the Church, a confessional Church. She must believe in Jesus Christ as Redeemer and Lord and must confess that faith openly in words and works.” -T.H.L. Parker, Portrait of Calvin (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 1954), 42.
“You have nothing in and of yourself. You and I are made of clay and spit. Any holiness of ours is polluted beyond our petty comprehension. I have nothing to offer Him but a bent neck, a neck He helped me bend. I have nothing to offer Him but filth, and He has taken it. …
“We are confessing the gospel: That God himself has provided a Redeemer who died, the just for the unjust, to bring us to himself. Without this gospel we are cut off, without hope in this world or the next, and utterly undone. Compared with this good news, what could possibly compete? Put the gospel first?” …
Today is Friday, and that means family time for me. If you haven’t been on your family vacation yet, you probably will be doing so soon. Why not maximize this family time together? Last year, C.J. Mahaney wrote a great article about leading family vacations for the joy of the family and the glory of …
Last year, Ed Stetzer was interviewed about some of the research from his book Comeback Churches, which we reviewed last year. You can read that review here. Below, is a video concerning the Role of Leaders/Teamwork. Good stuff here. Also, see the rest of the interview over at Ed Stetzer’s blog.