D.A. Carson: God is the sovereign, transcendent and personal God who has made the universe, including us, his image-bearers. Our misery lies in our rebellion, our alienation from God, which, despite his forbearance, attracts his implacable wrath. But God, precisely because love is of the very essence of his character, takes the initiative and prepared…
I’m reading through Brad House’s book Community: Taking Your Small Groups Off Life Support and wanted to share a an excerpt that speaks to how sin distorts and perverts community. God’s purpose in creating Adam and Eve were that they would be fruitful and multiply,…
This is summary from Mark Driscoll’s and Gerry Breshears’ book Doctrine on what is sin. In the Old Testament sin is described and defined in many ways: As a relational breach – Gen 2-3 where because of their sin our 1st parents are separated from God and one another; they hide from God and one…
This past Sunday I made the statement that the underlying reason for our sinful behavior, thoughts, affections and words stems from unbelief. For sure this unbelief manifests itself in a lot of ways but I humbly believe it is an overflow of not believing the truth and promises of God’s Word and instead believing the…
This past year I started working on a Doctor of Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Biblical Counseling and from Day-1 I have been overwhelmed as God has confirmed and affirmed my decision to enter into this program. In serving as one of the pastors at Oak Park Baptist Church I have been afforded…
There’s a lot of spurious claims out there concerning the percentage of high schoolers that leave the church after graduating. That issue isn’t the focus of this post, but rather what traits characterize students that actually do stay in the church. To that end, read this article by Jon Nielson. He writes succinctly, convincingly, and biblically concerning this ever-present issue…
The following video is an interaction between D. A. Carson, Tim Keller, and John Piper concerning the question of what sustains the covenant of marital love. Enjoy this short but insightful and encouraging video. And may our marriages exemplify the type of covenant love discussed in the Scriptures in the person and work of Christ…
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…
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),…
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…
Theology Along the Way 