I am not a fundamentalist.  At least I don’t think that I am.  In fact, I have prided myself on some occasions with my acerbic criticism of those who wear their fundi-wear a little too tight.  But here recently, as I look in the mirror and watch some of my friends, I wonder if we are not th...

But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. (Ps. 5.3) Image from Death by Love (re:Lit) King David composed this Psalm in the midst of him fleeing the revolt of his son Absalom.  With his family and kingdom crumbling from every side, David and his loyal band felt th...

This is just a horrific story.  Fred Winters, the Pastor of First Baptist Church Maryville (IL) was interrupted during his sermon on Sunday by a 27 year old man carrying a .45 caliber pistol.  The gunman then opened fire on the pastor who quickly aimed to block the gunman’s efforts with his ...

I have been more impressed than ever recently with the powerful work of Christ as the last Adam who destroyed the work of the evil one and reversed the dreadful curse upon humanity.  This particular hymn seems to underscore this thought.  In particular think of the work of Christ in the wilderness...

“Devote yourselves to prayer…” (Col. 4.2a) I suspect that a chief reason for our apathy in prayer is not our lack of need but in our perceived lack of need.  Many of our prayer lives reflect shallowness and irregularity because we somehow have bought the lie that we are sovereign ...

One of the regrets over the last 3 years of running this site is the small number of times that I have posted links to other helpful articles and resources.  I have often benefited from other resources but have not had the format to share them. In effort to change this I have decided to have a regu...

The other day I was studying and my email popped up from my 13yr old son Bryce.  The subject was intriguing to say the least, “Dad I wrote the inscription for your tombstone…”  This was an assignment for school. Bryce is very clever, smart, funny, and a great writer…so I su...

“God’s wisdom exalts what the cross stands for, and human wisdom is offended by what the cross stands for.” - John Piper, The Pleasures of God (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2000), 276. (ht: First Importance)...

I was recently in India and was amazed by many of the sites, sounds, and differences with my familiar American backyard. On one occasion as we were driving to the pastors’ conference where we were speaking, we had a gentleman on a motorcycle pull up next to us.  This guy was a sharply dressed...

The truth of the gospel is unchanging and more and more it seems as though the attacks against it are a reoccuring cast with the same basic script. In effort to aid our faithfulness today we want to be informed by the reoccuring attacks on the gospel throughout church history. At the next Omaha Bibl...