Monday Musings: Special Sermons for Special Days?

As Mother’s Day approaches, many pastors may wrestle with how to handle this holiday and or other holidays in their preaching calendar. Martyn Lloyd-Jones has some helpful advice: I would lay it down as a rule that there are special occasions which should always be observed.  At this point I have the temerity to express …

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Monday Musings

The office of the Christian ministry, rightly understood, is the most honourable, and most important, that any man in the whole world can ever sustain; and it will be one of the wonders and employments of eternity to consider the reasons why the wisdom and goodness of God assigned this office to imperfect and guilty …

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Scatter seed, believe, wait…

“Our plain and cheering duty is therefore to go forward — to scatter the seed, to believe and to wait. Yet must there be expectancy as well as patience. The warrant of success is assured, not only as regards an outward reformation, but a spiritual change of progressive and universal influence. The fruit of Ministerial labour …

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Believing: The Path To All Knowledge

In a recent article for First Things, Christian Smith writes about the natural, but not necessary tendency toward religion for mankind.  The article is well worth your time and in it, Smith argues that religion is natural to humanity, not because religious practices are universal, but because religious practice exists in every arena where the …

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Fantastic Four

The Wall Street Journal weighs in on why even feminists should be opposed to skimpy clothes for teenage girls. All of which brings me to a question: Why do so many of us not only permit our teenage daughters to dress like this—like prostitutes, if we’re being honest with ourselves—but pay for them to do …

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Monday Musings

The Christ who will not worship Satan to gain the world’s kingdoms is followed by Christians who will worship only Christ in unity with the Lord whom he serves.  And this is intolerable to all defenders of society whoa re content that many gods should be worshipped if only Democracy or America, or German, or …

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The Oversexualization of Marriage

I was recently given a copy of Ed and Lisa Young’s book, Sexperiment.  I’ve only thumbed through it a bit, but so far its what you’d expect from a book with that title.  It’s their attempt at making marriages healthier by encouraging more sex and intimacy.  Of course, sex isn’t the only thing discussed in …

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Materialism Revisited

Believe it or not, the Bible never condemns anyone for being wealthy.  In fact, in the Old Testament, many people perceived wealth as a sign of God’s blessings.  Jesus doesn’t condemn the wealthy either, in fact he was supported by the wealth as was Paul, and he even encouraged his disciples, “I tell you, use …

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Fantastic 4

My buddy Travis Agnew has a great little blog post on allowing mothers to mother. I began making a list of questions that mothers receive (I’m sure I missed some here, ladies, feel free to fill in the rest): Will you use prenatal vitamins?  How much do you exercise?  Do you drink anything with caffeine? …

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Fantastic 4

A new review of Real Marriage by former members of Mars Hill that raises some concerns with the tone, not the content. From the beginning of this book, Mark has made passing references to Grace’s mistakes and abuse that lead to difficulty in their marriage, but what about him?  He had been in previous sexual …

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