Monthly Archives: September 2011

What a question. One that will certainly evoke lots of emotion and heat. Nevertheless it is a much needed argument. Let me say up front what I believe so that one does not have to fumble all the way through … Continue reading →

I remember, as a young man, my zeal to defend Islam from (what in my mind were) ignorant Christians blinded by conservatism and patriotism. I remember, defending Islam in classes, reassuring my fellow classmates that all Islam meant was submission … Continue reading →

The Church needs creeds. Why? Because many that have come and will come, professing the name of Christ have distorted, denied, confused, altered, twisted, perverted the precious truths of God’s Word. And we live in an age where Christians, for … Continue reading →

Brian Borgman does a great job in his book Faith and Feelings: Cultivating Godly Emotions  in the Christian Life theologically driving home a proper understanding of emotions both in God and Christians. This oft neglected subject certainly needs more attention … Continue reading →

‘The pulpit leads the world.’ Few would dare to advance this claim today, but it would not have sounded an exaggeration in the last century. At the same time, those who discerned the privilege of preaching were distressed by those … Continue reading →

Even the greatest preachers have had people sleep on them. It can say more about the sleeper than it does about the preacher. Don’t get me wrong many men in the pulpit certainly give cause for sleeping during a service … Continue reading →

‘I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. And when, while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my Philip and my Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that never a Prince or Emperor inflicted … Continue reading →

We now return to my two favorite topics- the Gospel of Christ and preaching. The two most definitely go together. There is nothing as satisfying to my soul than to hear or read a preacher herald the glorious Gospel. As … Continue reading →

Calvinism has always sought to remove distractions from the due worship belonging to the Triune God. In our day, churches strive on making worship culturally relevant. In the minds of many, the church must create a worship setting that resembles the world inorder to … Continue reading →