Good to hear Tim Keller at Redeemer again after his summer break. Keller quoted from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail in last Sunday’s sermon. Definitely worth reading.
Jeremy Lowrey has written a provocative paper on the current condition of the church. His ten principles:
1. The body is responsible
2. Repentance is essential
3. Focus on Jesus
4. Don’t
Arguing that “the gospel is literally the only hope for the world today,” [Lloyd-Jones] showed how the gospel always makes a powerful effect upon the world after there has first been a
Ben Witherington has the most balanced review I’ve seen of The Shack, including this bit on the institutional church:
There is no such thing in heaven or on earth as an organism
George Whitefield (1714-1770) didn’t start out as much of a preacher. After his first sermon, someone complained to the bishop that Whitefield’s sermon had driven 15 people mad.
In the
