Andrew Fuller Friday: On Loving Your Enemy

LOVE TO ENEMIES Matt. 5:43–48 It was written in the law of Moses, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” The construction which the Jews put upon this precept is easily discerned by the question

Around the Horn (November 1)

If You Hate Jews, You Hate Jesus This past weekend on the Jewish Sabbath America witnessed the bloodiest, most violent day against Jewish people in American history. At the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg, a

C.H. Spurgeon’s Encouragement for Pastors, Young and Old

Below are excerpts from C.H. Spurgeon’s “A Sermon Upon One Nothing by Another Nothing,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 25 (London: Passmore and Alabaster), 85-96. The entire sermon is great gospel encouragement for

The Indispensable Value of Christ-Centered Courage

Something that my wife and I constantly tell our children is that giftedness and intelligence are vastly overrated. We also tell them that hard work, discipline, and convictional courage is vastly underrated. We tend to

9 Lessons I Learned about Church Planting

1. Extending family is the best form of church planting. Among the church planters I know, many are planting out of discontentment and even discouragement. For one reason or another, not always wrong or bad,

Around the Horn (October 25)

How Do I Find My Own Voice in Preaching? All preachers, God willing, go through certain stages of growth as preachers. The goal being that preachers are continually improving their craft. One stage that preachers

Around the Horn (October 18)

Biblical Theology in Discipleship According to Nancy Guthrie, often the way we disciple others in the Scriptures is disjoined and lacking the Christological unifying principle. She makes the case that discipleship that teaches Christ from

Legalism Does Not Work

Legalism does not work, never has, and never will. Legalism is the pursuit of good works, obedience to God’s law and the ethical commands of the Bible (and beyond), abstracted from faith in Christ, in