A good night on a hard bench

Last night I spent five (five!) hours in the local Montana’s with three Canadian legends: Jordon Cooper, Bill Kinnon, and Brian Mullins. Maybe they’re not really legends, but we had fun

Transforming the consumer church

I’ve been blogging through the first couple of chapters of Paul Metzger’s book Consuming Jesus. So far, Metzger has been raising some familiar concerns. The evangelical church isn’t what it

Lloyd-Jones: Specialize in preaching Jesus

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones explains how preaching Christ helps us avoid some dangers in his book The Preacher and Preaching. He suggests that we preach the Old Testament believers not as moral exemplars,

Blind to sinister forces

Not every book on the consumerism and the church includes a chapter on fallen powers. But Paul Metzger’s book Consuming Jesus devotes a healthy section to this topic. Metzger writes, “Sinister forces