Dads: Preparing Your Kids to Be Courageous Adults
In parenting seminars, I will often ask dads to estimate how often in a year they tell their children to be careful and safe. Once they settle on an estimated number in their mind, I
Andrew Fuller Friday: Fuller on the Goodness of the Cross
The cross of Christ, instead of issuing in disgrace, is followed with glory. His friends learned to glory in it; yea, and to glory in nothing else: and well they might. It was glorious to
Around the Horn (March 29)
Church Planting Hinges on Easter If Christ was not raised from the dead church planting makes no sense, according to Dayton Hartman. The resurrection is the message that God is victorious over the brokenness of
No Matter How Bad Things Get, We Have Baseball
Major League Baseball Opening Day. Just typing that phrase makes me feel a bit better. I mean it. Mentally and physically better. I cannot sufficiently explain the way the game is good for my soul,
Preaching is Indispensable
Preaching is not optional to the life and health of the church. A church that does not emphasize and value preaching is not simply a different style church, it is an unfaithful church. J.I. Packer
Andrew Fuller Friday: Fuller on Politics and the Gospel
The struggle between religion and irreligion has existed in the world in all ages; and if there be two opposite interests which divide its inhabitants, the kingdom of Satan and the kingdom of God, it
Around the Horn (March 22)
How the Biblical Story Speaks to Racial Diversity The arc of the biblical narrative is an arc that is racially diverse. In this podcast, Tony Merida and Walter Strickland discuss how from the creation account
Cruciform Warriors Needed
The Christian life doesn’t merely involve spiritual warfare. The Christian life is spiritual warfare. All of the followers of Jesus are soldiers and not civilians (2 Tim 2:3). We must be in constant preparation for
Andrew Fuller Friday: Fuller on the Importance of Truth
Truth, we may be certain, is the same thing as what in the Scriptures is denominated “the gospel”—“the common salvation”—“the common faith”—“the faith once delivered to the saints”—“the truth as it is in Jesus,” .
Around the Horn (March 15)
What is Evangelicalism? In recent days evangelical has been used in a number of ways in a multitude of contexts, which makes an attempt to understand the movement difficult. Returning to its historical roots and