One of the most fundamental truths of Christian apologetics is that every person is born with a clear knowledge of God. I don’t mean that every person has knowledge of a God, but that each individual knows the God who created him. This idea seems...
Church History is one of those subjects that many feel inadequate to comprehend, remember, and use in Christian ministry. Unless one is a history buff, church history texts are often difficult to enjoy reading, and are often not typeset or designed to be memorable or...
From John Piper’s forward to John Owen’s book, Overcoming Sin and Temptation: As I look across the Christian landscape, I think it is fair to say concerning sin, “They have healed the wound of my people lightly” (Jer. 6:14; 8:11, ESV). I take this to refer...
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...
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...
Writing about mainline denominations overtaken by theological liberalism almost 100 years ago and which have been in decline ever since, Leonard Sweet writes: A tradition cannot long survive without a living memory. By failing to generate among church members a sense...