Questions on Divorce and Remarriage

Foreword:  It is also recommended here that articles linked below are read to get a fuller picture of what David Instone-Brewer and John Piper wrote in order to give additional light to what Andreas Kostenberger is responding to. It is my hope that this article by Kostenberger answers some, if not all, questions we have [...]

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D. A. Carson on the Purpose of the Parables

by Andy Naselli
D. A. Carson preached on “The Purpose of the Parables” from Matthew 13:10-17, 34-35 in chapel at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School on October 29, 2009. Here are some notes:
Why did Jesus tell stories and use parables? Three answers are common.

Jesus told stories because he used them as illustrations. But that doesn’t make a lot [...]

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Book Review: The Truth About Man

Book Review: The Truth About Man, by Paul Washer

At the beginning of his classic Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin heads his very first paragraph thus: “Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God”. This observation is strikingly true, and if one would take the time to discuss the gospel in depth [...]

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Cartooning the Word — R. Crumb’s “The Book of Genesis”

Foreword: Here is another interesting article by Albert Mohler concerning R. Crumb’s project of cartooning the narratives in the book of Genesis.  You can reach the original article through this link.
My very first encounter with the Bible wherein I had very vivid memories has to do with a cartoon-style frame by frame presentation of main narratives of the Bible.  It [...]

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Keep the Fork

Foreword: A couple of years a go, I encountered a story that  tickled my thoughts and I have used it once as part of a sermon because it was relevant to the text of the message. I have not forgotten that story since. In the original article by Roger William Thomas, there was no mention of any Scripture [...]

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Christian Preaching

By Eric Costa
 
Preach to Glorify God
The ultimate goal of Christian preaching—as with all other things—is the glory of the Triune God. When the minister proclaims God’s true and beautiful Word, he honors the Persons, attributes, and works of God. But the glory really radiates when the Spirit uses his Word to change lives. If someone [...]

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Book Review: Him We Proclaim

 

Foreword:  This is one of the books in my reading list since May of this year. The other two are Heroes and Heretics, and Why We’re Not Emergent. I have not finished Him We Proclaim till now because I want to make sure that I get the point of every section I am reading, realizing above [...]

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It’s Well Past the Time to Get Ready

 
IT’S WELL PAST TIME TO GET READY By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 20, 2009 *

“The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired [Jesus] that He would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky [...]

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The Well-Read Christian

THE WELL-READ CHRISTIAN: Why Bible Lovers Should Be Bibliophiles
by Rick Ritchie
 
His accusing questions to the Pharisees begin with the words “Have you not read…?”, suggesting that his hearers were readers who should have read with more diligence.
The well-read life was the aspiration of bygone saints. No, not the life that was read by everyone (That [...]

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According to God’s Purpose

One of the most beautiful and solid assurances of God’s Word for a believer of Jesus Christ is found in Romans 8:27-28 – “And He who searches hearts know what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those [...]

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