Friends For The Gospel

How To Deal With Death

From Tim Challies
On September 28, 2008, I was shocked to read these words on the blog of Terry Stauffer, a man I had met at a couple of conferences and who has long been a reader and commenter at my blog: “Last night at about 4:45 our precious 14 year-old daughter Emily was attacked and [...]

Religion Vs. Gospel

From Tim Keller:
RELIGION: I obey-therefore I’m accepted.
THE GOSPEL: I’m accepted-therefore I obey.
RELIGION: Motivation is based on fear and insecurity.
 THE GOSPEL: Motivation is based on grateful joy.
RELIGION: I obey God in order to get things from God.
THE GOSPEL: I obey God to get to God-to delight and resemble Him.
RELIGION: When circumstances in my life go wrong, [...]

How will you share the Gospel with this generation?

With everything there is to compete with in our culture. The Gospel is still relevant and timely. Others believe that you have to “dumb it down” in order for this generation to understand or to sit still long enough for them to grasp it. The beauty of the gospel is that God is still working [...]

Rethinking Drinking

From Out of Ur:
Some younger pastors in traditionally teetotalling denominations are beginning to view bans on alcohol use as out of date. Is their so-called liberty in Christ simply an excuse for bad behavior? Or are the old timers adding laws to the gospel?

Mark Driscoll has thought the issue through (probably because the Pacific Northwest [...]

Who is Mark Driscoll

I like Pastor Mark! I think he is reaching people for Jesus and if you listen to his preaching (rather than his soundbites) you would agree that he loves Jesus, people, and wants them to go to heaven. I also don’t always agree with him on every issue, but regardless I enjoy his preaching, learn [...]

Quotes

We preach Christ not because Christianity is merely a superior philosophy or worldview, nor because we are smart enough to embrace the gospel, but because we have met the Savior, we have been claimed by the gospel, and we have been transformed by the renewing of our minds.  Our preaching is not a matter of [...]

Opportunity Knocks?

Bad times are good for evangelical churches.
“It’s a wonderful time, a great evangelistic opportunity for us,” said the Rev. A. R. Bernard, founder and senior pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York’s largest evangelical congregation, where regulars are arriving earlier to get a seat. “When people are shaken to the core, it [...]

Overheard

“All Christian preaching springs from the truth that God has spoken in word and deed, and that He has chosen human vessels to bear witness to Himself and His gospel.  We speak because we cannot be silent.  We speak because God has spoken.”
-R. Albert Mohler, Jr., He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World (Chicago, IL: [...]

Playing Some “D”

Where has the gospel gone? Too many books right now focus on methods and programs, and how you can have that mega church that you’ve always dreamed of. I spent three hours in a Christian bookstore last week and was amazed at the amount of books that are written today for [...]