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 […]
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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 […]
God-Centeredness Leads to Other-Centeredness
If we are God-centered, we will be on the lookout to meet the needs of others and do them good. God-centeredness does not lead to an inward focus on ourselves, or simply our own relationship with God (as important as our own relationship with God is). Rather, it leads us up and out of ourselves […]
Who is Responsible for What Your Church Becomes?
Mark Dever, in What Is a Healthy Church?: Before we consider what the Bible says churches should be, which we will do in the first few chapters, I want you to consider why I would pose this question to you, especially if you are not a pastor. After all, isn’t a book on the topic […]
Benjamin Warfield's Answers to Objections to Giving to the Poor
Warfield (quoted in Keller’s Ministries of Mercy): Objection 1. “My money is my own.” Answer: Christ might have said, “my blood is my own, my life is my own.” Then where should we have been? Objection 2. “The poor are undeserving.” Answer: Christ might have said, “They are wicked rebels . . . shall I […]
CS Lewis on the Importance of Reading Old Books
Lewis (from “On the Reading of Old Books,” God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics and quoted in Piper’s God’s Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards): There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the […]
Why Should We Help Those Who Brought Themselves to Poverty Through Their Own Sin?
To say “this person is poor (or suffering or in other financial hardship) because of their own sin and therefore should not be helped” is to utterly misunderstand the love of God. Jonathan Edwards nails this: If they are come to want by a vicious idleness and prodigality [wastefulness]; yet we are not thereby excused […]
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