Update: To her credit, Rachel Held Evans has come out and apologized for jumping the gun and assuming the worst about John Piper's motives. I still maintain this brand of evangelicalism is on the Downgrade, but it's good to see her admit a wrong committed and seek reconciliation (based on ... Read More

If your overarching (or inadvertent) goal is to be liked by the world as a believer, you will inevitably have to pare off the rough edges of truth, as Spurgeon called it, and do massive editing to make the message more acceptable. The gospel is an offense, in particular, that blood ... Read More

http://www.challies.com/christian-living/ordinary-christian-living-for-the-rest-of-us "'You can't market a book like that. It won’t sell. Nobody wants to read a book on being ordinary.' They are probably right. Nobody wants to read a book on ordinary living because nobody aspires to be ordinary. It is not likely to sell as a book or a theme. ... Read More

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. (Romans 10:2 ESV) Going through this verse recently with my high school Bible study, I remarked on how this verse, along with probably Matthew 7: 21-23, are some of the scariest verses personally. Why? They ... Read More

In response to the worldly "wisdom" going around these days that says entertaining doubt and questioning the Lord's righteousness in trial and His infinitely sovereign wisdom and control of all things, something that is beyond comprehension in how and why He carries out or permits what He does, as something ... Read More

"I would say, as a Christian and as a historian: the stories of Easter are really true, even though I'm skeptical myself that the tomb was empty, even though I'm skeptical myself that anything happened to the corpse of Jesus. I would say the stories of Easter are really true ... Read More

Stricken, smitten, and afflicted, See Him dying on the tree! ’Tis the Christ by man rejected; Yes, my soul, ’tis He, ’tis He! ’Tis the long expected prophet, David’s Son, yet David’s Lord; Proofs I see sufficient of it: ’Tis a true and faithful Word. Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning, Was there ever grief like His? Friends through ... Read More

"If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it ... Read More

If I could re-title this book, it would be, "Freed From the Shackles of Inerrancy." I wouldn't waste my time on it, frankly; I'm not. Yeah, call me dismissive. There are way too many other books of immediate importance (recent and from church history) and worth reading out there and ... Read More

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