The greatest danger facing the church
From Jim Hamilton:
Many pastors are a threat to their churches because they show from what they say and do that they do not understand what Christianity is. They think Christianity is the
theocentric
Losing the biblical gospel
From J.I. Packer in The Quest for Godliness:
There is no doubt that evangelicalism today is in a state of perplexity and unsettlement. In such matters as the practice of evangelism, the
The idolatry of the “Good Life”
Internet Monk warns us of the influence of American culture in our preaching:
The idolatry of "The Good Life" is, instead, the reshaping of the Christian movement into a particularly American
Why theocentric preaching isn’t as boring as it sounds
I first got interested in theocentric preaching when I realized how much anthropocentric preaching I've done, and how awful it really is.
We were set up. Two years ago I attended
Telling the story of God
Sidney Greidanus has written a few books that touch on the challenge of theocentric preaching. In The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text, he argues that the Bible's purpose is to