Friday is for Heart Songs John Piper has recently come in for some criticism for a post on the Desiring God website related to the tornadoes that swept across Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. You can read what he wrote here. I heard from a facebook™ post that there was a controversy “all over” the blogosphere … More New John Piper Controversy: Let it Be Brothers
Friday is for Heart Songs This is an important post from John Piper on one of the cultural pressure points against the gospel in our time–homosexual marriage. Will our age go the way of ancient Israel and capitulate to the gods of this age or will we stand in sacrificial love for those who will … More Homosexual Marriage Turns a Church to Apostasy
Friday is for Heart Songs Coming back from the Bethlehem Conference for Pastors, I am thinking anew about the greatness of hearing 2500 men singing of the greatness of our God. It truly is an awesome experience to hear the Savior praised by the resounding, passionate, thunder of men giving their all in worship. The … More Sorry Ladies, But the Wonder of Men’s Worship is Awesome!
Weekend Links Don’t miss the link comparing Time magazine covers for the USA market and Time covers for the European and Asian markets. It is sad, shocking and depressing to see how shallow the marketing people at Time think the America people are. Maybe more sad is that they may be right. As always, your … More Letting People Go with Dignity; Public Rebuke Warranted? Atheism’s Irrational Nature; and much more
Tuesday is for Preaching I love this presentation of gospel truth not only for its clarity but also for its pastoral sensitivity. Some in our time want to say that the Reformation doctrine of the atonement is a new thing. Anselm predates the Reformation by 400 years and it doesn’t sound like Anselm had any … More A Brilliant 11th Century Gospel Presentation
Weekend Links A lot of links this weekend. Some to challenge your thinking. Some to make you laugh. Some to shake your categories. But not everything is of equal value. Understanding the Gospel Crucifixion, What Was It? (Mark Driscoll- video) A Young Boys Triumph Over Cancer at the Cost of His Death (World Magazine) Penn … More Alan West, Lady Gaga, Evangelicals, the Penn State story, Thomas Sowell and much more
Monday Discussion I am convinced that the church needs to re-learn how to be the church in the neighborhood. Thirty-five years of seeker-sensitive, seeker-targeted methodology has created congregations that have no ability to herald the gospel and who can do little more than invite people to programs. Our people need to be retaught, after the … More Living for the Gospel-Good of Our Neighbors
Sunday Musings John Piper from 1995: Test yourself. What is your mindset? Do you begin with God and his rights and goals? Or do you begin with yourself and your rights and wishes? And when you look at the death of Christ, what happens? Does your joy really come from translating this awesome divine work … More The Delights of Christ and Cross
Weekend Links for 10/15/11 Collected these links all week and really glad to pass them on to you now. There is some truly great stuff in some of these posts. As always, I can’t vouch for every jot and tittle but I think you will be challenge, inspired and moved by much of the information … More Oh How He Loves Us; Steve Jobs; Mormonism; Herman Cain; Leadership Freak; John Calvin and more
Tuesday is for Preaching “… preaching is meant to be and to kindle God-exalting worship.” “First, I believe it because the Word of God says that everything is to be done in a worshipful, God-centered way: “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor … More Preaching is Not Therapy. It is Exaltation.
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