Now a skiing family

Christina went skiing with her school for a week in January. Ever since then, she’s been begging us to hit the slopes together. We finally did yesterday at the Mansfield Ski Club

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.

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