There’s something about alphabet soup. It seems to affect all of us in the same way. We see all those letters floating around and words start coming to mind. Words like “genius,” “smart,” and “intelligent.” Obviously I’m not talking about the kind of alphabet soup that comes from Campbell’s. I’m talking about the alphabet soup… Continue reading The Most Important Thing I Learned in Seminary
Category: Life in the World
rightly heeding the Gospel as God’s messengers to a lost world
The Call
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Every kid in America heard that question umpteen times growing up. The answers are as varied as the kids themselves. My thirteen-year-old daughter’s dream vocation seems to change as often as she changes her clothes.
A Review of Donald Whitney’s “Family Worship”
The phrase “family worship” is a term that was unfamiliar to me until a few years ago. I grew up familiar with the term “corporate worship”—the gathering together of believers to study God’s word, celebrate the ordinances of the church, and sing praises unto God—but “family worship” was new. “Family worship” simply refers to the… Continue reading A Review of Donald Whitney’s “Family Worship”
Explaining the Gospel
If someone asked you to explain the gospel, what would you say? What would be your key points? What Scriptures would you use? All believers should know how to share the gospel. Below we’ll look at one possible way to explain it.
Friday’s Footnotes Feb 5, 2016
From Christine Hoover at For the Church with MBTS: How to help your wife in church planting From Justin Taylor at Gospel Coalition: Is CS Lewis’ Argument of Liar, Lunatic or Lord Sound? From Amber Lapp at Family Studies: How institutions can strengthen marriage From Grant Castleberry at The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood:… Continue reading Friday’s Footnotes Feb 5, 2016
The Confusion of Church Dialect
A few years ago church leaders were challenged to learn the new language of pop culture and permit many old and worn church terms to fade into obscurity. You know, the church of what’s happening now wasn’t your grandmother’s church. So, we marked terms like “invitation”, “come down front”, “ask Jesus into your heart”, “amen”,… Continue reading The Confusion of Church Dialect
Friday’s Footnotes
It has been a crazy week for a lot of us, but here are some quick reads to finish off the week …
Friday’s Footnotes
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: Don Whitney draws out 5 Benefits of Praying the Psalms http://www.sbts.edu/blogs/2016/01/19/5-benefits-of-praying-the-psalms/
The Steps of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today will be marked by a number of appropriate celebrations, memorials and reminders of Martin Luther King, Jr and his steps through history. He marched one step at a time from an outcast to a national hero, and this date stands as an important one for all Americans to unravel the complicated history of our… Continue reading The Steps of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Gospel Correct Word in a Politically Correct World
Political correctness remains one of the most discussed and feared topics of modern life. There isn’t a spoken, written or tweeted word that sooner or later will be measured by the latest and often shifting standards of political correctness. The rules tend to change with surprising frequency, but the latest iteration of what “should be”… Continue reading A Gospel Correct Word in a Politically Correct World