Being A Godly Man May 3, 2012 Being a Christian is the hardest thing I do in my life. Being a good husband and father is no picnic either. The reason for this difficulty to lead a Christian life and maintain the important relationships in life is because we are attacked by Satan regularly. This is called Spiritual Warfare. We should pray… Read More
Book Review: Christ Centered Preaching May 3, 2012 A decade as a pastor and eighteen years in the academy have both served to inform the writing of Bryan Chapell’s Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon.1 In this work Chapell attempts to rescue the expository sermon from the time-bound and tradition-laden methods that are causing it to become more and more irrelevant in contemporary… Read More
We Live Like Our Obedience To God Is Optional May 2, 2012 The Hebrew people revered the name of God and feared breaking the third commandment of taking God’s name in vain so seriously that they worked out a system which prevented them from ever saying His name. “You shall not take the name of the Lord [YHWH] your God in vain, for the Lord [YHWH] will… Read More
Book Review: Lectures On Revival May 2, 2012 After his conversion at age twenty-nine, Charles Grandison Finney brought his legal training and his own theological views to bear on the landscape of American Protestantism. In Lectures on Revival, 1 he advocates the lessons he learned during a decade spent conducting revivals during America’s Second Great Awakening. The openness and candidness of these lectures… Read More
Martyrdom May 1, 2012 | 1 Comment The great encourager in the New Testament is Barnabas. After the beginning of his missionary journey with John Mark the Biblical record falls silent concerning him. 39 And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, Acts 15:39 (ESV) The Bible… Read More