“It is as much an error to dismiss affections entirely as unimportant to the reality of true religion as it is to focus on high affections without regard to their source or nature. Satan is happy with either error. He would as much have us fall into a lifeless formality as he would that we [...]
Great post by Doug Groothuis…
A new movement is afoot, inspired in part by John Eldridge, author of Wild at Heart. Call it the Christian men’s movement. The thesis is simple and wrong: the church is feminized and, therefore, cannot attract me (or at least cannot attract “real men”). The solution is simple and just as [...]
Martyn Lloyd Jones reporting after his six months away from preaching due to illness, in which he simply attended church services:
“My general impression is that most of our services are terribly depressing! I am amazed people still go to church; most who go are female and over the age of forty. The note missing is [...]
Paul William Helms shares his thoughts on the glory of God…
Something that I read on Adrian Warnock’s blog pointing to the work of the Holy Spirit among Seattleites through the preaching of Mark Driscoll and the ministry of Mars Hill (not to be mixed up with the other Mars Hill of MI) made a few [...]
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.” Romans 3:28
“Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is [...]
HT: Zach Nielsen
HT: Zach Nielsen
“The idea of being on fire for Christ will strike some people as dangerous emotionalism. ‘Surely,’ they will say, ‘we are not meant to go to extremes? You are not asking us to become hot-gospel fanatics?’ Well, wait a minute. It depends what you mean. If by ‘fanaticism’ you really mean ‘wholeheartedness’ then [...]
10. “Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.”
9. “Most Christian’s solute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.”
8. “They are in fact, womb-mates.” (Speaking of Jacob and Esau in Romans 9)
7. “In a universe governed by God there are no [...]
HT: Christ is Deeper Still
Adrian Warnock reports on some exciting news from Mars Hill…
I defy you to read this post and watch the video over at the Mars Hill Church Blog without tears welling up in your eyes of gratitude to God for what he is doing through the Mars Hill Church in Seattle. I am so thrilled to [...]
