Chris Anderson has written two very helpful articles on lust. I found them to be refreshingly practical and spiritually uplifting. In Part One he highly recommends Covenant Eyes. The leadership at our church has CE on our computers, and I agree with Chris Anderson about its effectiveness. Both artic...

Misleading attacks are part of politics. When you don't have the facts on your side, play on people's ignorance. This, of course, is done all the time with terms like Calvinist, Baptist, Arminian, Reformed, Dispensationalist, and -- gasp! -- Neo-evangelical! One time when my own convictions were bei...

Today there is a radical resurgence of Calvinistic, Reformed thought. A simple visit to a Christian bookseller or a careful listen to Christian radio reveals that dispensational, Baptist positions are becoming increasingly rare ~ Chuck Phelps, Maranatha Baptist Bible College This implies, of course,...

I have the immeasurable blessing of preaching to softness. There is hardly a Lord's Day that goes by when I do not see the tears of tender people in direct response to the preached Word. It is something that never ceases to amaze me. I know that it is not the preaching. There are far more gifted and...

In light of Chuck Phelps' unreasonable estimation that we live in "precarious" times because of the "resurgence" of Calvinistic, Reformed thought I want to suggest five reasons that I offered to my congregation recently why good Baptists should, at the very least, esteem the Westminster Confession. ...

Both are named Charles. Both reflect upon the uptick in Calvinistic thinking. Both in their statements obviously look forward to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Both are servants, but both are not right. Compare and think. Charles Phelps We are living in uniquely precarious times. Today there i...

I'm not satisfied with John Piper's dismissal of Jeremiah 3:8 as evidence that divorce is not necessarily intrinsically sinful because God Himself divorced. John Piper claims, despite what most of my commentaries say, that God never really did divorce Israel, His wife. He reminds us of Hosea who dep...

Buzzwords lose meaning. Expressions become faddish. "Gospel-centeredness" is already too meaningless anymore. Some think that they are Gospel-centered because they say, almost as an afterthought at the end of a message, "I would be remiss if I did not ask anyone here who might not know Jesus as his ...

When I am talking to a black person I see, well, a black person. He sees a white person. Many Christians attempt to deal with racism in the culture and their own personal biases and discomfort by working very hard to put on the air of color-blindness when they are in the presence of people of color....

1. This was encouraging to me because we may not have a lot of skill on our leadership team, but we do have cohesion. And, by the way, this is one of my favorite blogs. 2. Ben Wright is making a thoughtful observation of the obvious in his comments on Fundamentalist Indifferentism and people continu...