The Church

David Wilkerson has grabbed attention for his recent declaration that “AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN”. John Piper has weighed in with sound advice that we best “stick with the Bible”. Says John Piper: So my take on this prophetic word is that the scare will probably do good for a lot of people. […]

To quote A.W. Tozer: Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers met together, […]

Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days. Any man who by repentance and a […]

Blue Like Jazz, the popular book by Donald Miller has has been brought to my attention a few times lately and with the arrival of Jazz Notes a few months ago which the publisher calls “the literary equivalent of a remix CD — cool sound-bytes strategically crafted from Don Miller’s classic Blue Like Jazz”, I […]

Bonar died in 1892 and life has gotten no less distracting. “One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.” – Andrew Bonar via: Gospel Reminders

John MacArthur takes on the idea that good preaching is aimed at the felt needs of the hearer. He notes: “This is what is wrong with superficial, marginally biblical preaching.” I’d suggest preachers and parishioners read the whole thing here. Here’s the summarized list. It usurps the authority of God over the soul. It removes […]