Posted in Christian Living, Devotional, The Gospel on Jun 18th, 2010 2 Comments »
The picture above has been in the news this week, as this heart-breaking image of two slave children just recently surfaced. In God’s providence, I have been reading a very good book this week, Surprised by Grace, and the book closes with an illustration of our freedom in Christ that brought this picture to mind.
There’s [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Sin, The Gospel on May 22nd, 2010 1 Comment »
The gospel of Jesus Christ not only saves sinners in eternity, but it rehabilitates them here on earth as well. Radical things happen when God saves a sinner. Thieves stop their stealing and instead begin giving. Liars stop their lying and become advocates for the truth. Even the rich stop their hoarding, instead turning their [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Church, The Gospel on May 11th, 2010 4 Comments »
Below you will find an excerpt from Tim Keller’s excellent book, The Prodigal God. The emphasis is all mine, which is the specific statement that concerns this post:
“Jesus’ teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of His day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The [...]
Posted in Church History, The Gospel, Theology on Apr 18th, 2010 2 Comments »
Yesterday we celebrated my son Rylee’s 1st birthday. Rylee is named after the 19th century Anglican bishop, J.C. Ryle (along with my dad, Chandler, which is Rylee’s middle name).
Before we lit the cake and sang to little Rylee, I briefly explained to our friends and family what made J.C. Ryle so special, and why I’d [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, The Gospel on Apr 16th, 2010 13 Comments »
Sadly, in a recent article, Christian music artist Jennifer Knapp has openly admitting to living in a homosexual relationship with another woman. If you are not familiar with Jennifer Knapp, she was a extremely popular CCM musician in the late 90’s, until walking away from music (temporarily it seems) in 2002.
Reading the interview, a few [...]
Posted in The Gospel on Feb 11th, 2010 No Comments »
“We must have a righteousness in which Jehovah Himself cannot find a flaw, a righteousness which Jehovah cannot mend, a righteousness which neither sin nor Satan can mar; and unless we have on a righteousness of this nature, we can never enter into the blessedness of the world to come. Where, then, are we to [...]
Posted in Misc, The Gospel on May 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’ve never done this before, but because of a few requests, and in hopes that a few family and friends will benefit from a sermon that I benefited from myself, below I’m going to place a few excerpts from a sermon I preached this past Lord’s Day evening. If you’ve never heard me preach (trust [...]
Posted in Law/Gospel, The Gospel on May 12th, 2009 24 Comments »
In my last post I said the following in an attempt to present the gospel of Jesus Christ:
“Salvation is by works alone. But man is incapable of working his way to salvation. You need an alien righteousness, the works of Another”
If scripture clearly and emphatically declares that salvation is by faith (in Christ) alone, why [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, The Gospel on May 7th, 2009 22 Comments »
This week Greg Gilbert over at the 9Marks blog asked whether we could accurately present the gospel of Jesus Christ on Twitter –requiring that the text be 140 characters or less. I thought this was an excellent and profitable question, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading some of the short gospel presentations.
However, as I thought [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, The Gospel, Theology on Jan 5th, 2009 16 Comments »
I am going to spend a few posts in the coming weeks sharing various excerpts from the Michael Horton book, Christless Christianity. This is the first post in what I hope to be a mini-series examining the claims of this book.
As I have said before, I highly recommend Christless Christianity to you, as I consider [...]
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