Session #1: The Front Page God (MP3) Session #2: The Promise-Driven Life (MP3) Session #3: Feasting in a Fast Food World (MP3) Session #4: Question and Answer (MP3) Taken from: http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/gospeldriven.html
Posts under ‘Philosophy of Ministry’
Liberating a Captive Church – The Foreword to Christless Christianity
Here we are in the North American church—conservative or liberal, evangelical or mainline, Protestant or Catholic, emergent or otherwise—cranking along just fine, thank you. So we’re busy downsizing, becoming culturally relevant, reaching out, drawing in, making disciples, managing the machinery, utilizing biblical principles, celebrating recovery, user-friendly, techno savvy, finding the purposeful life, practicing peace with [...]
An “Emerging” Debate in Reformed Circles
Something is starting to boil. It has been simmering for a while, kind of quietly on the back burner, but it seems the critiques have really escalated in the past few weeks and been brought to the forefront ever since Time Magazine published their 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now in which the “New [...]
A Discussion on Christianity and Culture (MP3)
This is a very important program that ministers, leaders, counselors, and pastors in the church should take the time to listen to. The White Horse Inn radio program recently did a show entitled The Foolishness of God in which a discussion took place on the relationship of the church to culture. There are a thousand [...]
The Seeming Successes of Evangelicalism – John Piper (MP3)
This has to be one of the best introductions to a sermon I’ve heard. At only seven minutes long, John Piper hits the nail right on the head concerning the state of evangelicalism. Very excellent analysis, yet very saddening. The truth is hard to hear sometimes, but we must properly and truthfully identify the problems [...]
What Do You Think About the State of Today’s Church?
These are not just a bunch of Reformed people criticizing what’s “out there” as it were … these are people from various backgrounds, denominations and traditions within evangelicalism, including the emerging church, discussing what they see as the gutting of historic Christianity in America. The Reformed movement is not immune to these critiques either, I [...]
The Pragmatism of the Church – John MacArthur
“Pragmatism has engulfed and swallowed up the professing church. Theology has been replaced by or subverted to styles of methodology. I think it is a strange phenomenon that throughout history denominations were established based around a common theology and now associations are established based around a common methodology. So much of current evangelical strategy is [...]
Christless Christianity – Michael Horton
Check out this site www.christlesschristianity.org and get the book. Good stuff.
The ‘I Am Second’ Campaign – A Review
Updated 4/16/2009: Since I originally wrote this, I have become less leery of what the campaign is trying to do. My church is one of the churches to contact and we preach the Gospel. So, all that to say that though I still have some legitimate concerns concerning methodology, I’m not as cautious as I [...]
A Call To Move Forward – The Practical Results of Seeker-Sensitivity
As Carl Trueman on Reformation21.org and Al Mohler on almohler.com have pointed out recently, something is so fascinating with the recent wave of criticism by the left of Obama asking Rick Warren to perform the invocation at his inauguration (which I must give Obama credit on being a consistent relativist as opposed to others on [...]
