The Gospel Revolution
This upcoming May I will be speaking in Dallas at a conference sponsored by the Association of Biblical Counselors called The Gospel Revolution: Rediscovering the Power of the Cross. I’m honored to be...
View ArticleGenerous Justice
The subject of social justice and whether or not the church should involve itself in such things is a hot topic these days, especially amongst younger Evangelicals. I’ll never forget a conversation I...
View ArticleThe Gospel is For Christians
The great theologian B. B. Warfield on why the gospel is needed for believers: There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God....
View ArticleBe Not Afraid
This morning I went back to a prayer that my friend Scotty penned recently -- a prayer about fear. It’s so natural to be afraid even though the Bible tells us over 300 times "be not afraid.” Scotty’s...
View ArticleContextualization Without Compromise
On April 26-27 I will have the privilege of joining men I admire and respect at the Advance the Church conference in Durham, North Carolina. My assignment is to speak on “contextualization without...
View ArticleCounterfeit Gospels
In light of Paul Tripp coming to Coral Ridge this weekend, I’ve gone back through a lot of my Paul Tripp books–he’s such a huge gift to the church! In one of his books (co-authored with Tim Lane), How...
View ArticleHigher Up and Further Back
In one of the most powerful and poetic paragraphs I’ve ever read on human yearning and the hope of the gospel, Cornelius Plantinga (President of Calvin Theological Seminary) writes: The truth is that...
View ArticleWho Were You Carrying the Stone For?
On Easter Sunday afternoon, my wife mildly rebuked me after listening to me complain about how I didn’t think I preached a good sermon that morning. Embarrassingly, she had to remind me that Easter is...
View ArticleRepenting of Our Good Works
Tim Keller from his book The Prodigal God on the need to repent, not simply of our unrighteousness, but our righteousness also: What must we do, then, to be saved? To find God we must repent of the...
View ArticleGospel-Centered Church Life
Here is a great word from Michael Horton regarding the relationship between the inner life of the church and effective outreach, taken from his book A Better Way: John Calvin’s Geneva was a model city,...
View ArticleThe Gospel Revolution
This upcoming May I will be speaking in Dallas at a conference sponsored by the Association of Biblical Counselors called The Gospel Revolution: Rediscovering the Power of the Cross. I’m honored to be...
View ArticleGenerous Justice
The subject of social justice and whether or not the church should involve itself in such things is a hot topic these days, especially amongst younger Evangelicals. I’ll never forget a conversation I...
View ArticleThe Gospel is For Christians
The great theologian B. B. Warfield on why the gospel is needed for believers: There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God....
View ArticleBe Not Afraid
This morning I went back to a prayer that my friend Scotty penned recently — a prayer about fear. It’s so natural to be afraid even though the Bible tells us over 300 times “be not afraid.” Scotty’s...
View ArticleContextualization Without Compromise
On April 26-27 I will have the privilege of joining men I admire and respect at the Advance the Church conference in Durham, North Carolina. My assignment is to speak on “contextualization without...
View ArticleCounterfeit Gospels
In light of Paul Tripp coming to Coral Ridge this weekend, I’ve gone back through a lot of my Paul Tripp books–he’s such a huge gift to the church! In one of his books (co-authored with Tim Lane), How...
View ArticleHigher Up and Further Back
In one of the most powerful and poetic paragraphs I’ve ever read on human yearning and the hope of the gospel, Cornelius Plantinga (President of Calvin Theological Seminary) writes: The truth is that...
View ArticleWho Were You Carrying the Stone For?
On Easter Sunday afternoon, my wife mildly rebuked me after listening to me complain about how I didn’t think I preached a good sermon that morning. Embarrassingly, she had to remind me that Easter is...
View ArticleRepenting of Our Good Works
Tim Keller from his book The Prodigal God on the need to repent, not simply of our unrighteousness, but our righteousness also: What must we do, then, to be saved? To find God we must repent of the...
View ArticleGospel-Centered Church Life
Here is a great word from Michael Horton regarding the relationship between the inner life of the church and effective outreach, taken from his book A Better Way: John Calvin’s Geneva was a model city,...
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