Posted in The Gospel, Trials/Sufferings on Feb 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
I enjoyed the video below by John Piper (thanks to purgatorio, again). Check out below and then see a few of my follow-up comments:
Though Piper’s point is very true and well-taken, I believe a more insidious version of the same ‘gospel’ is also making huge waves in the church. Specifically, most of who we’d refer […]
Posted in The Gospel on Feb 19th, 2008 12 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before that this semester, I am taking an anthropology class at Kennesaw State University. This particular class is an online class (my first experience of such), and there is a good bit of discussion that must take place in a ‘classroom’ web forum.
A recent question was posed by the professor which was along […]
Posted in The Gospel, Christian Living, Sin on Feb 8th, 2008 17 Comments »
If we could pinpoint the precise point where the modern church has erred and has thus flirted with completely abandoning the gospel of Jesus Christ, where would that point be?
A misunderstanding and confusion on law versus grace? Works versus true faith? That might be a good place to start, but there seems to be something […]
Posted in The Gospel on Jan 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
My thoughts of late have been centered on the topic of conversion. That is, salvation; the momentous event when a soul is justified. Of course, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ, but specifically, I have been contemplating just how hard -or how easy- this ‘process’ of conversion is.
I am continually […]
Posted in The Gospel on Jan 26th, 2008 9 Comments »
I saw this video posted over a purgatorio, a Christian satire blog that often has some thought-provoking stuff.
Sadly, conversion predominantly spoken of in this culture has more to do with ‘getting saved’, ’saying ‘yes’ to Jesus’, ‘inviting Jesus into your heart’, etc., than it does the very essence and nature of true conversion from […]
Posted in The Gospel on Jan 5th, 2008 6 Comments »
I came to a shocking and sobering realization the other day: I have personally sinned more in 2007 than in any year of my life.
While observing the festivities that the unbelieving world participated in regarding the New Year, it struck me how they were celebrating the fact that they’ve lived another year, which for many […]
Posted in The Gospel, Sovereignty, Christian Living on Oct 17th, 2007 20 Comments »
Reverend Horton believes that Osteen tells only half the story of the Bible, focusing on the good news without talking about sin, suffering and redemption.And Rev. Horton goes even further. He levels the harshest charge of all, calling the Osteen method of teaching heresy.
“It is certainly heresy, I believe, to say that God is our […]
Posted in The Gospel, Misc on May 17th, 2007 10 Comments »
Tonight I had the pleasure of attending the final evening session of the F.I.R.E national conference here in Atlanta, GA. Phil Johnson from TeamPyro was the featured speaker this evening, and hopefully my ‘live blogging’ notes below will provide a sufficient summary of his excellent and timely message (this post is very long, but very […]
Posted in The Gospel, Calvinism, Sovereignty on May 7th, 2007 22 Comments »
While scanning the blogs and reading about the huge controversy surrounding Francis Beckwith’s ‘conversion’ back to Roman Catholicism, I came across a blog entry where a Roman Catholic was explaining her abandonment of Protestant Calvinism.
Apparently, this young lady was convinced of the doctrines of grace (Calvinism) through reading some John Piper material and such, but […]
Posted in Shepherding, The Gospel, Sovereignty on Apr 23rd, 2007 11 Comments »
This week during the corporate prayer at the church I am presently attending, I mentioned to the congregation our responsibility to pray for the situation at VA Tech. Obviously, with a tragedy of such great proportions, our prayers should certainly be for the surviving families and loved ones hurt by such a heinous act of […]
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