The Gospel Is Practical
“The healthy evangelist is asking these questions and looking for answers so as to guard the gospel. Here is the critical test. Could you have preached that sermon if Christ had not died on the cross? Could you have developed that Christian leadership principle had Christ not been crucified? I’m not saying be impractical-the Bible …
Preaching Christ Means Preaching His Cross
In light of David’s posts on Preaching Christ, we must also remember to center our preaching of Christ on his cross. John Stott wrote, The fact that a cross became the Christian symbol, and that Christians stubornly refused, in spite of the ridicule, to discard it in favor of something less offensive, can have only on …
Spit & Clay
“You have nothing in and of yourself. You and I are made of clay and spit. Any holiness of ours is polluted beyond our petty comprehension. I have nothing to offer Him but a bent neck, a neck He helped me bend. I have nothing to offer Him but filth, and He has taken it. …
Book Review: Christ Our Mediator
C.J. Mahaney’s, Christ Our Mediator, is a wonderful short mediation on the glorious cross of Jesus Christ. He quotes his “historical hero, Charles Spurgeon, who wrote, ‘Abide hard by the cross and search the mystery of His wounds” (12). In chapters three and four, Mahaney writes about how Jesus saved us from God’s wrath on …
Book Review: Death By Love
Mark Driscoll has turned out several books in recent years, and Death by Love is one of those that is great. Several reviews can be found for this book on the internet, so I will not waste your time with an in-depth review, but more of a taste and see reccommendation. This book is written …