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• Inspirational McCain

I try not to write about politics. I think the whole election process in this country is a farce. It’s an overblown popularity contest. Such a small percentage of the population really knows what their candidate believes. Most base their votes on purely aesthetic or stereotypical guidelines. They find someone that looks the most like [...]

• Expelled Preview Screening

If the posters popping up around campus are to be believed, there will be a preview screening at Southern of the new Ben Stein documentary on intelligent design, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” on April 1st. I had trouble believing it at first, It sounds like a cruel prank that Dr. Moore might play on his [...]

• Calvinist Infestation

Mark Dever ponders “Where did all these Calvinists come from” in a 10 post series.

• Essential Piper Library

My introduction to Dr. John Piper was in college, through a free cassette tape of one of his sermons which I picked up at a church in Dothan, Alabama while doing some drama for a JAM team there. My car at the time had no CD player and if you’ve ever tried to listen to [...]

• I’m a Heretic

Jerry Falwell recently proclaimed from his self-appointed papal pulpit that limited atonement is heresy. Then I guess I’m a heretic. Sorry I let you down Dr. Falwell.
Of course if I believed everything else that Dr. Falwell believes I would be correct to say that limited atonement is incorrect. If I believed that Christ’s death [...]

• Sanctity of Human Life

Yesterday in my church we observed Sanctity of Life Sunday and while the large focus was upon the atrocity of abortion we also looked at embryonic stem cell research. But as I thought about it the sanctity of life covers so many issues. When we realize that every person is created in the image and [...]

• Are We Just Yelling?

As a Christian, and especially as a pastor, sometimes I feel like I’m not reaching anyone, not impacting or engaging anyone. Most of the time I feel like I’m just yelling. I was reading some old articles from one of my favorite church marketing sites, BetaChurch.org, when I ran across this article.
Its focus is [...]

• Is Joel Osteen Fascinating?

Tonight on The Barbara Walters Special ” Most Fascinating People of 2006″ The man with the most annoying smile in the world was #8. There is much more that annoys me about Joel Osteen than his grin. His teaching is just awful, yet week in and week out millions of people tune in to hear [...]

• The Lost Virtue of Cooperation

It doesn’t take much searching on the internet to find out what many Baptists believe is going to be the next big battle. Many speak in apocalyptic terms about this “evil” and fear that if something isn’t done soon, our convention is going to fall apart. In their opinion, this Trojan Horse is the dreadful [...]

• What Did Spurgeon Think

I could easily see this become another recurring post. Basically I take a theological or philosophical argument and using the magic of public domain and search engines find out Charles Spurgeon’s view on that particular issue. This is basically what I read this morning over at OldTruth.com. Jim Bublitz writes in “Did Spurgeon Create Converts [...]

• Preach the Word

I read an excellent post by Dan J. Phillips from TeamPyro on preaching the word. Read the whole post here.
And so it is the preacher’s burden to open up the Word — not as if opening a museum, but a picnic basket. My goal isn’t for my hearers to stand at a distance and [...]

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