Thinking About Leaving Your Church? Don’t Be So Hasty
Here is a good word from Wayne Grudem that confronts our desire for the “perfect church:” Of course, if we are to work for the purity of the church, especially in the local church of which we are a part, we must recognize that this is a process, and that any church of which we [...]
The Awesome Three-In-One: How the Doctrine of the Trinity Affects our Worship
The doctrine of the Trinity, expressed seminally in Church creeds and continually defended in each generation’s own theological context, is a precious and glorious doctrine. Yet, it is not enough for the doctrine of the Trinity to remain merely in the realm of creedal affirmations and theological nuance-no doctrine in the Bible was ever meant [...]
Fame, Talent, and New Conversions
One of my favorite roads is located in the south San Francisco Bay area, in a quaint, densely wooded neighborhood called the Los Altos Hills. It is a road that Amy and I have traveled together many times—it is the road to her parent’s house. Alongside the road, about three-quarters of the way to my [...]
Blogging and Accountability in the Local Church
Today Fox News reported that a severed foot washed ashore off the coast of British Columbia, making it the fifth foot to show up off the coast of British Columbia in a year. Investigators are treating the incident as a criminal investigation. But let me posit this question: why are they treating the discovery of [...]
Looking to Christ, not to Faith
I have been noticing lately in my own life how joy and assurance comes not from introspection and an intense investigation into my faith, but rather by looking to Christ. There seems to be a subtle yet significant difference between placing faith in my faith, and turning the eyes of faith to Jesus Christ. In [...]
Book Review: Evangelical Ethics by John Jefferson Davis
It has been easy for me to slip into the mentality that engagement in ethical issues is not the priority of the Christian individually or the Church as a whole. To be honest, as I consider the past eight years of my Christian life, I can say that most of the time I have spent [...]
Dogma is the Drama
In a recent article in the Kairos Journal, we are reminded of the late Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957). Sayers was a well-known British playwright, author, and scholar. Graduating from Oxford University in 1915, she was among one of the first groups of women to achieve this distinction. Sayers had a knack for unmasking misperceptions of the [...]
Jay Adams on Exercising Powerful, Biblical Leadership
How do we lead our churches well? How should we be evaluating our ministries? What shape should these evaluations take? What should we consider when making evaluations. Jay Adams, in Shepherding God’s Flock, observes, If they care about exercising powerful leadership, shepherds must be willing to support every plan, every program, and every administrative act [...]
Expository Preaching: Encouragement from Mark Dever
Two nights ago, my wife and I had a conversation with Mark Dever. He did most of the talking. In his book Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (2nd ed.), Dever discusses nine essential characteristics a church must pursue and establish in order to be truly (Biblically) healthy. The first mark of a healthy church is expository [...]
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