To Restore the Throne and Dominion of God
Cotton Mather said:
The great design and intention of the office of a Christian preacher is to restore the throne and dominion of God in the souls of men.
We don’t really
A New Public Theology for Our Times
The December 2008 issue of Comment (published by Cardus) contains an important article. At first glance, it looks like one people might skip. It’s called “Can We Hope for a Neocalvinist-Neopuritan Dialogue?
Get Out of the Way
My latest column at Christian Week:
When I started pastoring almost twenty years ago, I put a lot of energy into making church better. My first church was small and homespun. I tried
Moralistic Preaching is so 80s
A great article by Ed Stetzer and Jason Hayes on preaching to the younger unchurched:
Directly connected to the younger unchurched’s aversion to simplistic preaching is their aversion to “tidy” preaching. The
Trampled
I remember when people worried about blogs dumbing everything down. People no longer read books, critics said, and could no longer sustain their attention for anything longer than blog posts.
That was before