Alex Chediak has just released his new book, Thriving at College: Make Great Friends, Keep Your Faith, and Get Ready for the Real World. Alex covers 10 common mistakes students can make in college: Chucking your faith Treating college as if it were high school Not being intentional Distorting dating and romance Refusing to grow […]
Archives for March 2011
Every Christian is a Minister in Their Own Sphere
More good counsel from Spurgeon’s Counsel For Christian Workers: According to Christ’s law, every Christian is to be a minister in his own sphere; every member of the church is to be active in spreading the faith which was delivered not to the ministers, but delivered to the saints, to every one of them, that […]
The Five Convictions of Christian Hedonism
Piper has written a lot of books and preached a lot of sermons. You can learn something amazing and biblical from everything he has said. But the best place to start, in my view, still remains Desiring God. This is where Piper lays out most fully the foundations of “Christian Hedonism” — the truth that […]
Can Christians Affect the Timing of the Lord's Return?
Yes. “Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God” (2 Peter 3:11). Here’s what the ESV Study Bible has to say about this passage: Hastening (Gk. speudo, “hurry [by […]
Spurgeon: Grace Makes us Unworldly, Not Unearthly
Spurgeon, from Counsel For Christian Workers: Grace does not make us unearthly, though it makes us unworldly. True religion distinguishes us from others, even as our Lord Jesus was separate from sinners, but it does not shut us up or hedge us round about as if we were too good or too tender for the […]
Jesus: Not Just an Example
1 Peter 2:21 tells us that Christ left an example for us to follow, especially when we suffer as he did: “But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for […]
Tim Keller on Revival
Tim Keller has a good post seeking to address the question: How do seasons of revival come? After discussing briefly whether we can have any influence at all over whether revival happens, he then carefully discusses “some factors that, when present, often become associated with revival by God’s blessing.” He mentions four from William Sprague’s […]
Why Does Justification by Faith Apart from Works Lead to Good Works?
Martin Luther explains one of the chief reasons. Here’s what he says in The Freedom of a Christian (quoted in Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough): Although I am an unworthy and condemned man, my God has given me in Christ all the riches of righteousness and salvation without any merit […]
To Transform a City: Tim Keller on How to Know if You are Reaching Your City
Tim Keller has an excellent article at Leadership Journal on what it takes to transform a city through the gospel. Let me highlight two things. First, one of the core ideas of the article is that reaching a city takes more than just one or two flourishing churches. It takes a “city-wide gospel movement.” Here’s […]
If You Want to Read One Book on the Church
I read (or re-read) about 20 books on the church this week (ironic — I’m writing a book on productivity, and yet I felt compelled to review my understanding of the church before fully diving in; there is a relationship there that I might talk about sometime). Many of the books were really good, but […]