This week’s post is sponsored by The Master’s Academy International (TMAI), a global network of pastoral training centers that specialize in expository preaching. They invite you to sign up for their 2023 International Symposium on March 7th in Los Angeles, California. We sometimes hear that a mature church will be “all in” when it comes…
This week the blog is sponsored by Truth78 and the post is written by David Michael. Great News: Jelly Belly® reserves are strong and should be available to supply global demand through the pandemic and beyond! Not that there would be a run on them, but for at least two decades of ministry, I’ve used…
This sponsored post by Wayne Grudem is correlated with the release of his new book Christian Ethics: An Introduction to Biblical Moral Reasoning, in which Grudem distills over forty years of teaching experience into a single volume aimed at helping readers apply a biblical worldview to difficult ethical issues, including wealth and poverty, marriage and…
This is an age of consumption, an age of abundance, an age of excess. At least for those of us in the developed world, it is a time of all-you-can-eat buffets, of room-sized walk-in closets, of unlimited bandwidth and endless binge-watching. Our homes are so loaded with stuff that we’ve made self-storage units a thriving…
This sponsored post was prepared by The Master’s College. We give the Scripture supreme place because it honors the lordship of Christ over His Church. I’m always concerned when I go to churches or when I hear about churches where the Word of God is not taught, where Scripture is not exposited, where the whole…
They are questions I receive often: “Do you ever sleep? Do you work all the time? Do you ever stop?” There seems to be this impression among certain people that either I am an unrepentant workaholic or that I am remorselessly neglectful toward life’s other responsibilities. The truth is far less sordid: I have invested…
We are not God. That seems obvious when we consider it and yet so often we act as if we actually are God, or gods, at least. John Piper talks about this and many of its implications in one of his meditations from Pierced by the Word. Here is what he says: We are not…
Is it bad form to review a book I was involved in publishing? Perhaps so. Either way, I intend to do just that this morning. Many months ago I read a draft of Grieving, Hope, and Solace by Albert Martin, a book that was subsequently published by Cruciform Press (of which I am a co-founder).…
In the back of my mind I can almost hear that Monty Python guy saying, “And now for something completely different.” This week’s Free Stuff Friday giveaway is definitely a little bit different. The sponsor is 1031 Sermon Jams. 10:31 Sermon Jams was made to bring sermons and music together. They were created to bring…
The final day of the conference began with seminars, so Julian and I decided to attend one led by Dr. Bruce Ware who spoke on “Worshiping the Triune God.” As I expected from the man who wrote such a convicting book on the Trinity, Dr. Ware covered the topic thoroughly and biblically. This is a…