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 [...]
Posted in Biblical Interpretation, Christian Living, The Gospel, Theology on Dec 13th, 2008 5 Comments »
Last week Newsweek magazine published an article entitled “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage”, authored by Lisa Miller. Al Mohler covers the gist of the article in an excellent blog-post here.
The purpose of my mention of it today is not to discuss Gay marriage, the Bible’s specific teaching on the subject, our even our attitude [...]
Posted in The Gospel on Dec 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
What is the gospel you proclaim? For most who read this blog (and a small number indeed), we could probably spit out the essence of the gospel in relatively few sentences, without even giving it much thought.
But in the quote below, the author makes a very acute observation regarding our operative gospel, and our basis [...]
Posted in The Gospel, Theology on Nov 19th, 2008 3 Comments »
Quotes taken from Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture:
“In my experience the preaching of a series of sermons, say, from an epistle, easily leads the preacher to fragmentation because, while the epistle was written as a single letter to be read at one time, it is often divided up so that it is dealt [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, The Gospel on Oct 27th, 2008 4 Comments »
**UPDATE**
Below you will find that I added a few choice quotes from the first chapter of Christless Christianity.
You can imagine my surprise today as I read my hometown newspaper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and I ran across an advertisement for Michael Horton’s new book, Christless Christianity. (Actually, I knew it was coming because the White [...]
Posted in Calvinism, The Gospel on Sep 30th, 2008 No Comments »
So how did John Newton, the author of the most popular Christian hymn of all time, Amazing Grace, proclaim the gospel to unbelievers?
“A well-wisher to your soul assures you, that whether you know these things or not, they are important realities…Oh hear the warning voice! Flee from the wrath to come. Pray thee that they [...]
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