What is the gospel? Another response

Another blog attempts to answer this question, and includes this quote from Darrell Guder: In the exploration of the missiological implications of reductionism, I have stressed that the reduction of the gospel to

Beyond self-help chatter

David Neff describes what happens when preachers forget to connect a text to the bigger story and instead trivialize the text, as he discovered while visiting a church on vacation: The Old Testament

Defending my thesis

This blog began last year as I was writing my D.Min. thesis for Gordon-Conwell on the subject of theocentric preaching. This Friday, I'm in Boston to defend the thesis. I&

Beyond a greeting card theology

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Challies reports on a message by Al Mohler: All around us are preachers preaching greeting card theology that says the gospel comes down to

Where have all the theologians gone?

LT writes: I think one of the biggest things ailing the western evangelical church is poor theology, particularly in the areas of salvation and transformation.   Our understanding of what it means to follow