Without a robust understanding of God’s sovereignty, God's Under-Shepherd's cannot confidently go where God has called them to go. They cannot (and will not) face the sin that perverts and destroys their lives – and the lives of their people with the steel ... Continue Reading
God’s Under-shepherd’s Need a Heart-Shattering and Sober Understanding of Sin
The reality is this: broken and sinful people (that is — all people) severely need the gospel. It is the difference between life and death. Either people are left dead in their sins or they are, by God’s grace, made alive in Jesus. Either their desires end ... Continue Reading
The Day that Changed Everything ( A “Testimony” of Sorts)
There once was a guitar. This guitar was brand new; it had a maple neck, a spruce top, and no imperfections. It had one purpose, one reason for existing. That reason was to hit me dead in the center of my chest. Its mission was to bury its now broken body ... Continue Reading
Cheap Grace: Bonhoeffer and The Cost of Discipleship
As followers of Christ and members of his church, we must affirm that there is, in fact, a real and present enemy at work souring God’s beautiful song of salvation. This enemy, though restrained, runs rampant in pulpits across America and beyond – singing a ... Continue Reading
The Church Needs an Abrasive Gospel
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed… ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” - Jude 1:4 The Gospel of Jesus Christ is being trampled violently underfoot in pulpits all across ... Continue Reading
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