Good Article by Kyle Vaughn from "The Resurgence" website

“The Digital Age–A New Dark Age? A Look At How Christianity Can Speak To Those Lost In A Storm of Information”
Great article with information on the Enlightenment, postmodern, and post-literate movements, how these movements have impacted the Church and how Christianity masters the reason – faith paradigm, the highest knowledge being that of God, [...]

Agreeableness Not Synonymous With Regeneration

I have observed that the general and secular culture of the South is noticeably, and often frustratingly, aligned with the “churchy” culture of the Southern states. The secular culture is quite agreeable to the church culture and the church culture seems to be quite content with reflecting that culture and quite indifferent towards molding it. [...]

Is Evangelism the Means of Contagious Joy?

I believe it is! I would not make it exclusive, but perhaps, preeminently important, as Paul addressed it, “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received…” (1 Cor. 15: 3). Many of those people who now live outside of Christ would so deny Him because of the depravity of joy [...]

Panel Discussions

Concerning the Resurrection…
From the ‘On Faith’ panel at the Washington Post. Panelists include Charles Colson, Al Mohler, Kathleen Flake, N.T. Wright, Willis Elliott, Cal Thomas, Deepak Chopra, and Michael Otterson, and from them, a myriad of perspectives, some biblical and right, others culturally adapted, spiritually compromising, and reflective of the new age spirituality.

Spurgeon on "The Soul Winner" and His "One Business"

“It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too. The man of one object is a man indeed. Lives with many aims are like water trickling through innumerable streams, [...]

The Goal of Winning Souls

5:15 a.m. came quickly this morning; the internal clock is an awful thing sometimes; nevertheless, I was up for some early morning exercise. So, I trickled my way into the trailblazer and felt blindly for my ipod. I have been working my way through a series of sermons by John Piper on evangelism from the [...]

"Lord, Make Me Pure But Not Yet"

This quote from Augustine’s Confessions tends to be quite relevant to the state of the Christian Church today. We pray, “Lord, make me pure…but not yet.” This is the honest cry of the redeemed soul pit against the wiles of the flesh. There exists a very real sense in which the Christian desires holiness, for [...]

Rend Thy Hearts and Not Thy Garments

In the prophetical book of Joel, the grain and drink offerings that accompanied the sacrificial offering had been neglected and withheld from the LORD. Those offerings of wine and grain upon the sacrifice served to fragrance that aroma that was pleasing to God, which in the New Testament would be fulfilled in the reality of [...]

What is Piper-ism?

When I use the term “Piperism” I am not referring to his doctrine necessarily, which is of academic Calvinism, a self-asserted “7-pointer”. I am not making reference to his Puritan-like exposition of Scripture. Though I am a great admirer of his academia, his exposition, and his careful, thought-provoking, insightful and passionate pleas in the area [...]

God Glorified In Martyrdom: Lament For Ms. Mizzel

We do not have to venture farther than the Cross of Christ to understand that the world rejects and hates in an angry and murderous fashion the Truth as it is in God, revealed in His Son, Jesus Christ by faith. And so, in time, was the fate of the prophets before Christ, though [...]