The Gospel in the Here and Now
What causes people who have experienced God’s forgiveness from past sins and who trust in a glorious future with Him in Heaven to lead what the apostle Peter describes as “ineffective or unfruitful”...
View ArticleEnormous Sin, Extravagant Gospel
Is the Christian life about doing more and trying harder, or is about resting in what Christ has already done? Is it about your performance for God, or His performance for you? The answers to those...
View ArticleProclaiming and Living Out the Gospel
I wrestled to find a suitable title for my review of Darrin Patrick and Matt Carter’s new book, For The City. Obviously, I decided ultimately that their subtitle, “Proclaiming and Living Out the...
View ArticleSocial Media Meets The Gospel at The Christian Path
Joey Morgan (@thejoeymorgan on Twitter) is a 16-year-old Marcus High School (Flower Mound, TX) freshman who desires to bring other teenagers into a closer relationship with Jesus, and he is doing just...
View ArticleAwakening to the Gospel
Ray Ortlund begins his foreword to Jared C. Wilson’s Gospel Wakefulness like this: What is the spiritual future of our churches? If our future is going to be better than our present, we have to change....
View ArticleThe Scandalous Cross & Resurrection of Jesus
Reblogged from thirstyones.com: Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus, by one of my favorite New Testament scholars and theologians, Dr. D.A. Carson is a great read for Holy Week, or...
View ArticlePlease Save! From What?
On that first Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into Jerusalem to cries of, “Please save!” (“Hosanna!”). (Matthew 21:1-11) Within days, many of those same people were crying, “Crucify him!”. (Matthew 27:22-23)...
View ArticleThe Explicit Gospel
Do People Truly Understand the Gospel? As a biblical counselor in private practice in the Bible belt, I have the privilege of extolling to individuals, couples, families, and teenagers every day the...
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