<dt > Martin Gommel / Foter What are the most powerful words in the world for believers? My friend, John Guest, says that the most powerful words in the world are, "God loves you." I don't disagree. Yet, for many believers who are Continue Reading
May 14, 2012
Preaching on Mission (Matthew 4:12 – 17): Keynote Message at the National Conference on Preaching 2012
There has never been a more important time to talk to preachers about preaching on mission. The landscape of Old Christendom is like an abandoned strip mine, with huge, gaping, ugly craters, filling now with the most horrid debris and litter. These Continue Reading
April 14, 2012
“The Moral Force of the Pulpit”
Knilram / FoterJohn Wingate Thornton wrote, "To the Pulpit, the Puritan Pulpit, we owe the moral force which won our independence (Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805, edited by Ellis Sandoz [Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, Second Continue Reading
January 1, 2011
Reaching Up! A Sermon for the New Year
It is interesting to look back. Here is my sermon from last year for the New Year. It has some chronologically specific items in it. Yet I trust that it contains the timeless truths of Scripture which will again speak to us today. I am convalescing with Continue Reading
July 29, 2010
Thinking about the Cedar Falls Bible Conference, Willa Cather and Ha Erets
This summer I’m preaching at the annual Cedar Falls Bible Conference in Cedar Falls, Iowa. They hold it at a campground just like they’ve been doing since the turn of the last century. Some of the same families who were there when these hearty, godly Continue Reading
July 9, 2010
Acknowledge the Sin, Accentuate the Grace, Honor the Fathers: Why I love the PCA and RTS
Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place. 1 Chronicles 29.28 There has been some talk lately, quite recently, that has come to me about the publication of a book (by Peter Slade) claiming that Continue Reading
May 31, 2010
A Doxology in the Darkness: How God Transforms Your Pain into Praise
“To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of Continue Reading
