The Church and Homosexuality: Ten Commitments, by Kevin DeYoung

Of the many complexities involving the church and homosexuality, one of the most difficult is how the former should speak of the latter. Even for those Christians who agree that homosexuality is contrary to the will of God there is little agreement on how we ought to speak about homosexuality being contrary to the will [...]

My Take: The Bible Condemns A Lot, But Here’s Why We Focus On Homosexuality, by Albert Mohler

Christians who are seriously committed to the authority of the Bible have no choice but to affirm all that the Bible teaches, including its condemnation of homosexuality. At the same time, our confidence is that God condemns those things that will bring his human creatures harm and commands those things that will lead to true [...]

Churches Today Do Not Have This Effect

Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day.  However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect.  The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones.  We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people.  The licentious and [...]

The Implications of the Edwardsian Principle for Corporate Worship (Part III in a Series)

What is the Edwardsian principle, that is, the keystone rule of Jonathan Edwards?  If you have paid any attention to John Piper’s ministry over the last thirty years, you know it.  And I would argue that the principle itself is not original to Edwards or Piper, but is in fact derivative.  It is derivative from [...]

John Piper Addresses Law Students

Blog post by Jonathan Parnell at Desiring God blog.  Questions asked and addressed include: Would you agree with the definition that “righteousness seeks the good of the community?” How do you define righteousness? How do developing countries counter the prosperity gospel? How can we maintain a zeal for God’s glory throughout our work? Should churches [...]

May God Be So Gracious To Us

Long it has been an excuse for many how their decline in Christian ministry is due to their advancement of their age.  It is as if the long lives of many imminent saints, biblical and historical, are akin to eclipses that are exceptional when they occur though that occurrence be seldom.  I will not argue [...]

Holy Oil or Earthly Ambition?

What is the motivation behind your study of the Bible pastor?  Seminarian? Christian?  John Owen, dubbed the Prince of Puritans, was known throughout his life for his genius, the immensity of his learning, and his intense passion for biblical study and theological writing.  One of his biographers, Andrew Thomson, comments on Owen’s struggle for purity [...]

How Will He Care for God’s Church?

The title is a quote from the apostle Paul, 1 Tim 3.5b.  The context of the quote concerns the qualifications for those men gifted by God and set apart by the church for the noble task of overseer (elder/pastor).  The most immediate context is that qualification that deals with the management of one’s own home. [...]

Kevin DeYoung on “Thinking Theologically About Memorial Day”

“While patriotism can be good, the church is not a good place for patriotism.” Read post here.

The Primary Ministry for Pastors

“Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisors they succeed” Proverbs 15:22.  A few of my friends and I took a recent trip northward to the greater Boston area, praying to God for wisdom, discernment, pristine clarity, and the faith necessary to plant a church.  During our stay there, we met with several brothers who [...]