Here are two examples from JP Moreland’s excellent book Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul: I once attended a meeting of missionaries from around the world, at which a national Christian leader from Central America stood up and passionately exhorted North American mission agencies […]
Frontline Missions
Andy Naselli posts about 4 DVDs from Frontline Missions that have deeply impacted and challenged he and his wife. I’m looking forward to watching them myself at his recommendation. Here are two endorsements of the videos: Are you afraid to open your eyes and see death and destruction in the world? Dispatches from the Front […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Pastors Can Miss About the Bible
Jonathan Leeman has a good post at the 9Marks blog on why he wrote his latest book, Reverberation: How God’s Word Brings Light, Freedom, and Action to His People. Here’s what he has to say: Wanna grow as a Christian? Then apply yourself again and again to your understanding of God. That’s been the lesson […]
The Cape Town Committment on the Need for Developing Godly Leaders
As you know, I was in Cape Town for the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization last fall. The statement working group from the congress has recently released the Cape Town Commitment: A Confession of Faith and a Call to Action. Here’s the section on leadership, especially as it pertains to the church in the […]
A Review of John Piper's The Supremacy of God in Preaching
I wrote this several years ago in seminary, but it remains just as relevant today: The Supremacy of God in Preaching is built upon the premise that “the vision of a great God is the linchpin in the life of the church, both in pastoral care and missionary outreach” and that, consequently, “our people need […]
When Has a Pastor Crossed the Line into Plagiarism?
Here’s what I recently wrote for The Gospel Coalition blog on that question. Justin Taylor and I also wrote an article on plagiarism several years ago for the DG site after some people wrote in about their pastor, I think it was, preaching someone else’s sermons as his own. At the TGC blog you can […]