Twenty-One Books on the Gospel
1. A Gospel Primer: for Christians by Milton Vincent A Gospel Primer is a handy guide designed to help Christians experience the gospel more fully by preaching it to themselves every day. 2. Living the…
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[Repost Review] Radical – Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
David Platt’s book, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, is an excellent book. I highly recommend it – if only for his assessment of American Christianity; the American Dream couched in Christian…
Why Church Membership? Concluding Thoughts
A Product of American Thinking American culture has too much of a hold upon our thinking and is the lens through which we understand Scripture, and more specifically, how we understand Church Membership. This is…
Rinse, Repeat, Rinse, and Repeat Again (Reflections on Our Justification)
If you are like me, you hardly ever have to convince yourself of your sinfulness. Temptations abound and sin is ever present. But what you must convince yourself of is the extent to which your…
Orphan Care Ministry Spotlight – Sixty Feet
This new series highlights organizations that, in my estimation, are on the frontlines of mercy ministries, but not just any mercy ministries. They are ministries focusing on orphan care. They’ve taken James 1:27 to heart.…
Motivation For Doing Good Works for Which We Will be Judged
Why do I focus on the Gospel so much when Scripture tells us, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what…
Eschatology 101 – Israel
This first article on the subject of Israel is Dispensationalism’s critique of “the Israel of God” as a simple term descibing the believing church of the present age. “In spite of overwhelming evidence to the…
A Snapshot of T4G2012
“If we lose the concept of lostness we lose the entire gospel–real people are in real danger before the only real God” ~Thabiti Anyabwile “God only has one sermon. From Genesis to Revelation it is…
Why A Christocentric Interpretation of Scripture?
Why do I believe and promote a Christocentric interpretation of Scripture (both OT & NT) as the primary interpretation? I will list off a few reasons and only touch on a couple. Christ is the…
Why Church Membership? The Gospel
Philippians 2:8 – “And being found in human form, he, that is Christ, humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” Ephesians 1:3-14 – “Blessed be the God…