What does it mean to “preach the gospel to yourself”? – Part 2
To preach the gospel to yourself means that you continually face up to your own sinfulness and then flee to Jesus through faith in His shed blood and righteous life. It means that you appropriate, again by faith, the fact that Jesus fully satisfied the Law of God. In both its precepts and penalty, He…
What does it mean to “preach the gospel to yourself”? – Part 1
Milton Vincent, in his book A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of God’s Love concisely summarizes the answer to the question “what does it mean to preach the gospel to yourself.” This post will simply serve as some summarizing comments from his book. Enjoy. The gospel is so foolish (according to my natural wisdom),…
Happy Moralist and Sad Moralist and why they’re both wrong
I finished reading a book called “Counsel from the Cross – Connecting Broken People to the love of Christ” by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Dennis E. Johnson several months ago and wanted to repost some comments from a post I made months ago. If you haven’t read the book you should – it’s remarkably insightful…
Gospel-Centered Discipline
I’m working my way through Ed Moll and Tim Chester’s small book “Gospel-Centered Family: Becoming the Parents God wants you to be” and I wanted to share some words they have on discipline. Here are some wrong motivations for discipline: The desire for a quiet life The desire for respect or appreciation A fear of…
New Testament Theology Notes
This week I’m taking a class through Alumni Academy at Southern Seminary on New Testament Theology. A hearty thanks to Southern for the fact that it’s free, as well as Dr. Schreiner who made his New Testament Theology notes available online. You can access them here.
Ten Ways to Bring the Gospel Home this Christmas
Good post from Desiring God. Enjoy and seek to put some of these ideas into practice with your family.
Christopher Hitchen’s death and what to think about it
Here are several prominent Evangelical Christian’s comments on the passing of Christopher Hitchens: Douglas Wilson (friend of Hitchens’ who ministered to him over the course of many years, as well as co-wrote a book together) weighs in here. Russell Moore (Dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) weighs in here. Denny Burk…
Reading the Bible to know and love the One to Whom it points
To bring balance to my words in a previous post about reading the Word Trevin Wax has a great post entitled “Why Studying the Bible Won’t (Necessarily) Change Your Life.”
Knowing the Word
I met with an individual today and among many of the issues we discussed was his tentative plans of transitioning to a Senior Pastor position. As we discussed what that looks likes he asked me what were some of the things I’ve learned in my first couple years while serving at Oak Park. So I shared for about 20 minutes…
