by | Sep 29, 2008 | Bible, Books, Theology, Worship
I’ve often struggled to describe the meaning of the phrase “fear of the Lord,” and I usually end up describing something that skirts around the word “fear.” To an extent, this is good–God does not want us to be terrified of him....
by | Sep 25, 2008 | Bible, Books, Preaching, Theology, Worship
I just read a fascinating sermon by Augustine on the love of money for one of my classes. The sermon was given on the occasion of a feast of a martyr, and Augustine’s main goal is to undercut the idea that the martyrs were somehow super-human in their capacity...
by | Sep 6, 2008 | Bible, Church, Theology
Edit, 1/22/2011: I have been going back through some old blog posts, and I wanted to write that I do not find this blog post persuasive at all any more. I want to leave it here, but the more I read this, the more I hear Paul’s words dripping with sarcasm, not...
by | Jul 18, 2008 | Books, Church, Culture, Theology
D. A. Carson writes in his For the Love of God, Vol. 2 for the meditation on Jeremiah 14: Because our own culture tries so hard to detach from God what happens in the “natural” world, reserving for him only private or distantly “spiritual”...
by | May 10, 2008 | Bible, Books, Church, Theology
One of the ongoing struggles of evangelicals is to rid themselves of fundamentalist notions of “being separate” from the world. In the past, especially in the wake of public, humiliating losses in the public square on the issue of creationism (e.g., the...
by | May 7, 2008 | Bible, Church, Preaching, Theology, Worship
Is it a good thing that most churches have generally only one man preaching? Obviously, there are some churches that only have one pastor trained to preach, and most churches that generally only utilize one man have other preachers once every 4-6 weeks (on average)....