You can monitor modesty and measure hemlines, but you cannot moderate the temperature of your child’s heart. You can eliminate songs with beats, but you cannot temper the beating of your child’s heart for artistry. You can talk about not defrauding the hearts of boys or girls, but you cannot control the trigger in their... Continue Reading

My point is simple. Evangelicalism is a tradition with attendant folkways and liturgical practices. One of the practices low-church Evangelicalism has long embraced is not participating in lenten abstention. As a traditionalist, I walk in the steps of these historical homeboys and am the richer for it.   Last spring, I wrote about my skepticism about the new found... Continue Reading

There are two kinds of existence-the uncreated Creator, and everything else, which is created. Twoism celebrates both God’s otherness in relation to the world and also explains the distinctions he placed in the creation to celebrate this Twoist reality. This is a heterocosmology, a world based on otherness and difference. These two understandings of the... Continue Reading

I’ve been listening to Knox Chamblin’s lectures on the New Testament which are available from Third Millennium. There are about 80 lectures and I recently got hold of his book “Paul and the Self,” which is outstanding…It’s the fruit of over 30 years teaching about Paul and is pure gold for pastors. Dr Chamblin taught New Testament at Belhaven... Continue Reading

To be clear, I’m certainly not calling for a crusade against Judaism. I’m simply telling Jewish people that they needn’t be worried about Christians “tricking” them into abandoning Judaism or Christians making their Zionism contingent on Jewish acceptance of Jesus. By the same token, Jews needn’t demand that Christians abandon a central part of their... Continue Reading

Is there evidence that you’re living with a separation between your spirituality and reality? However slight, this separation shouldn’t exist. So maybe you’re asking now, “What will my life look like if my spirituality begins to transform my reality?” Let me give you five signs:   If I watched a video of your everyday life... Continue Reading

I greatly appreciated was that Anyabwile did not just focus on the qualifications of elders or pastors (part 2 of the book), but also dedicated the entire third section of the book to the work that they are called to do.  Again, this section would be good for pastor/elder and laity alike.  We often have... Continue Reading

Many men leave seminary exuberant and ready to follow God’s calling, only to discover that the road ahead of them isn’t as smooth as they thought it would be. The conference theme, The Faithful Shepherd: Persevering in Your Church and Ministry, will address a few of the important issues that inevitably arise in church ministry.... Continue Reading

Randy and Renee Draughon’s son, Zach, suddenly and unexpectedly went home to be with the Lord yesterday morning. They both loved their son with a fierce love and want you to know that they are deeply grieving. They don’t grieve without hope and they want to thank you for grieving with them.   A note... Continue Reading

It is all too easy, and amazingly common, for Christians (or non-Christians) to take the general truth that Jesus was a friend of sinners and twist it all out of biblical recognition. So “Jesus ate with sinners” becomes “Jesus loved a good party,” which becomes “Jesus was more interested in showing love than taking sides,”... Continue Reading