Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved by J.D. Greear My rating: 4 of 5 stars Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart is pretty standard conservative evangelical Reformed Baptist material covering aspects of soteriology related to assurance....
Piety
Jim Elliott
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
Beautiful Words from John Donne
I've listened for years to this beautiful choral track (the piece is also on this King's Singers album), and I'm ashamed to say I've never thought to look up the whole text from which it came. I'm glad I finally did. This is beautiful, soul-stirring stuff: If I should...
Insight from Psalm 1
My wife and I were reading Psalm 1 in the Holman Christian Standard Bible, and the way it chose to translate the familiar verse Psalm 1:2 yielded a small insight. This is how I memorized Psalm 1:2 in the KJV: His delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth...
Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Preaching (290)
A difficulty with much biographical preaching ... is that it typically fails to honor the care that the Bible takes to tarnish almost every patriarch or saint within its pages. Without blushing, the Bible honestly presents the human frailties of its most significant...
Excerpt from DeYoung’s Hole in Our Holiness
This entire excerpt from Kevin DeYoung's excellent book The Hole in Our Holiness is freely available online, and I found it uniquely valuable. You can buy the book here and read my review of it here. THE MEDICINE FOR OUR MOTIVATION an excerpt from The Hole in our...
An Excellent BJU Chapel Message
My valued friend and one-time interview guest, BJU preaching instructor Kerry McGonigal, preached a great message in BJU chapel today. He used the whole book of 1 Peter to argue for a particular kind of response to our culture's intolerance of Christianity. I would...
The Two Closets, Or Practicing Christian Liberty
In the very first month of this blog's existence, I posted some detailed sermon notes from a particularly helpful message (and that's saying something) that my beloved pastor, Mark Minnick, had preached to his congregation. With his permission, I turned those notes...
Review: White Noise
White Noise by Don DeLillo My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am not smart enough nor skilled enough in literary criticism to explain why this book merits four stars. I did feel while reading that I was in the presence of a truly superior intellect. But I'm gonna try to say...
Review: Date Your Wife
Date Your Wife by Justin Buzzard My rating: 3 of 5 stars A book of its gospel-centered time, and I think that's mostly pretty much all good. But not completely. Like those dramatic, one-sentence paragraphs. I'm about to issue a Protestant fatwa against those. And I...
Mount Calvary Baptist Church Memory Verses: Armory for Victory
For my own use as well as yours, here are the memory verses my precious home church has used for several years. Psalm 119:128—My Opinion of God's Word Numbers 23:19—God Will Do As He Has Said Matthew 4:4—Obeying God's Words More Necessary Than Eating Daniel 4:35—God's...
Review: After Chapters & Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations
After Chapters & Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations by Christopher R. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars I hope to write a publishable review of this book in the future. I’ll just take this Goodreads/blogging opportunity to offer some of my favorite...