Archive for March, 2014

This past week, the evangelical world jolted to attention when World Vision announced it would permit the employment of practicing homosexuals who are committed in a same-sex marriage relationship. Thankfully, within 48 hours they humbly and penitently pronounced a policy reversal. In the aftermath of the World Vision controversy, one issue lingers. Given our cultural Read more

“Thou has Left thy First Love” by C. H. Spurgeon (Morning and Evening, February 11, Evening) “But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.” (Revelation 2:4 ESV) Ever to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw the Lord, lost our burden, Read more

  Tuesday night marked the inaugural Legacy Church Planting event at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. I was pleased to host a panel discussion that featured Pastors Johnny Hunt, Mark Hoover, D. A. Horton, John Mark Clifton, and Steve Dighton. Each of these men shared stories from their ministries of legacy church planting, along with fielding Read more

Recently Tim Challies produced a chart detailing the resurgence in reformed theology, or “New Calvinism,” within Evangelicalism. Challies’ chart is a taxonomy, detailing the tributaries—individuals, resources, and entities—influencing the New Calvinism. Yet, Challies’ chart reminded me once again of two of the most often asked questions associated with New Calvinism: is it more than a Read more

“I will yet for this be Enquired of by the House of Israel” by C. H. Spurgeon (Morning and Evening, February 19, Morning) “Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.” (Ezekiel 36:37 ESV) Prayer is Read more