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Finding Contentment in Christ
“Contentment is the cultivation of a satisfied heart. It is the discipline of being fully alive to God and to others whatever our material circumstances. Contentment is not achieved through getting everything we want but by training the heart to experience full joy...
Recent Books on Theology
From Heaven He Came and Sought Her The doctrine of definite atonement (popularly known as limited or particular atonement) is one that evokes strong reactions in many Christians. John Wesley called it horrible blasphemy that presented Christ as “an hypocrite, a...
The Sad and Ugly Reality of Sexual Slavery
http://sayable.net/2013/11/pretty-woman-and-why-you-judge-prostitutes/The Sad and Ugly Reality of the Sexual Slavery No one chooses that lifestyle. No one asks to be raped, exploited, trafficked, paraded, blackmailed, or abused. I never use the word prostitute because it doesn’t matter to me how much money a girl, or her captor, pimp,...
Incredible Source for Defending the Doctrine of Scripture
The doctrine of Scripture is in need of defense in every generation. In our day the challenge is presented by those who want to say that the idea of inerrancy arose out of a corruption of Christian theology by Greek and modern philosophy, and that the Bible's...
Leaders Are Marked by Vision
Leaders are marked by vision. Vision makes the difference between leadership and misleadership. Vision includes goals and strategies developed with team members. Vision dreams the most possible dream, not the impossible dream. Leaders recognize that vision gives...
Extravagant and Extraordinary Grace
Two recent books on the subject of grace complement each other wonderfully and deserve a consideration for your next read. Extravagant Grace: God’s Glory Displayed in Our Weakness by Barbara Duguid (P&R, 2013) is a distillation of wisdom on suffering drawn from...
Unhealthy Churches are Terribly Effective Antimissionary Forces
Unhealthy churches cause few problems for the healthiest Christians; but they are cruel taxes on the growth of the youngest and weakest Christians. They prey on those who don't understand Scripture well. They mislead spiritual children. They even take the curious...
The pleasures and pains of teaching
Many people have asked me how the transition has gone from teaching theology and apologetics in seminary to teaching undergraduate pastoral theology in my new job at Lancaster Bible College. My answer: Everything about the new job has been beyond my expectations, and...
Vision is Critical to the Life of the Church
"A vision gives life, and if there is no vision, the seeds of death are being sown and it is just a matter of time until death will prevail." Harris Lee, Effective Church Leadership, 131.
The gritty, coming-of-age tragedy that is Mud
Sometimes you need to read a book or watch a movie that vividly portrays the tragedy that is the human experience in order to be reminded of the sorry state from which we are delivered in Christ. Last weekend I happened upon a little-known recent movie starring...
Evil Leadership is Always Exposed
Leadership which is evil, while it may succeed temporarily, always carries with it the seeds of its own destruction...Misleadership is something false coming through a strong personality, and the stronger the personality, the worse the ultimate crash. B. L....
The Greatest Challenge to the Faith of Serious Students of the Scriptures, Part 2
John Currid’s new book, Against the Gods: Polemical Theology of the Old Testament (Crossway, 2013) offers answers to the challenge of OT higher criticism that provide a welcome alternative to evangelical scholars who feel that they must give priority to ANE texts in...
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