Is Sermon Application Legalism? "Why is it so important to believe that application is a friend of the gospel? In the name of gospel centrality, preachers may be tempted to downplay or neglect preaching imperatives.

Stop Domesticating God Speaking about Genesis 1:28, Brianna Lambert writes, "One way humans can follow this command is by using the plants in the soil and the beasts on the land. We are meant to

The Problem of Gospel-less Gospel-Centered Sermons In this post, J.A. Medders notes, "My great concern is that while our generation has grown in preaching and teaching in a gospel-centered way, we are forgetting the whole

The Bitter Splinters of Marburg This is a helpful post by Michael A.G. Haykin in which he uses the debate between Luther and Zwingli to highlight the importance of understanding the possible results of disagreements

Emerging From Our Trials Unscathed Here Tim Challis notes, "We are to pass through our trials unscathed by them all, unsullied and unharmed. We will not be unchanged, of course, and neither should we be.

We Grow Up in Christ by Growing Down in Lowliness In this post, Randy Alcorn shares some thoughts from J.I. Packer on how growing small is the key to Christian greatness. Beware the Habits of

Let Christ Shine Through Family Habits "Ordinary daily habits are like liturgies. “They are little routines of worship, and worship changes what we love” (11). That’s Justin Whitmel Earley’s premise in his book Habits of the

The Antifragile Christian "As great as it sounds, antifragility is increasingly lean these days. More and more examiners of our culture bemoan, instead of antifragility, a brittleness that has seeped into the West. Intolerant of

How John Owen Prepared Sermons "Here is the great theologian and the profound scholar, sitting down as a pastor of God's people, and asking, first and foremost, what has blessed me, and will it bless

The Bible tells us the rest of the story about who we are Leaning on Francis Schaeffer, this post notes that we get a partial picture of reality but, "the Bible fills in the rest