by Dan Phillips ...these are pretty amazing: Now, I think the first is clearly faked, and one or two others are iffy. But the rest? If they're fake, they're fooling me. Even if they're all fake, we know that athletes pour incredible focus and discipline into what they do. Their whole life is molded ...

Your weekly dose of Spurgeon posted by Phil Johnson The Pyro Maniacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "Confession of Christ," a sermon preached on Sunday evening, March 21st, 1868. here is no true confession where there is not a ch...

Its time I reinstated Piper Friday here, It had never been canceled, merely put on hold! Writing a book has taught me that many tasks take a lot longer than our instant coffee generation wants us to believe. My deadline rapidly approaches now, but I hope that in many ways my book is the product not ...

"In Lent, the Devil works overtime." Non-liturgical people would want to say, "No, no! The devil always works overtime!" He does work to destroy our faith and souls. He constantly seeks chinks in our armor where his fiery darts may land. He constantly probes for weaknesses, old standards and new one...

Service Mark 9:33–35 records one of the more curious arguments in all of history—a debate between the disciples about which of them was the greatest. Upon overhearing their arrogant conversation, Jesus responded in a most unpredictable manner. Rather than simply rebuking them, Jesus actually tol...

Several months ago, Joe Carter wrote a blog article titled ‘Ten Deadly Trappings of Evangelism,’ where he describes his concern for “the way in which evangelicals tend to embrace whatever trends and kitsch happen to be hot sellers at ‘Christian’ bookstores.” As I ...

The Holy Scriptures undeniably describe faith as the only thing necessary for salvation.  They also teach that good works cannot justify a person before God or contribute in the least toward the attainment of salvation.  The Old Testament says that Abram ‘believed the Lord, and He counted it...

"The gospel is a message about the good things that are now true about us as the achievement of the cross is applied to us in Christ - that God is only merciful to us now instead of wrathful (propitation); that we are counted righteous in Christ now (justification); that we are freed from the guilt ...

Present-day evangelicals and, in my experience, Southern Baptists in particular, seem to be focused very much on their personal pasts. When someone asks about your testimony what they really want to know is about the time you got saved. It’s all about when you got saved. To be honest with you ...

An Encore Presentation “If you are just now in the fire, dear soul, be of good cheer – it shows at least that you are silver, and are capable of performing more acceptable service in God’s holy Temple.� (Meyer) "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." -Malachi 3:3 This verse puzzle...