Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On Sunday morning I preached a sermon response to the Lost Tomb of Jesus controversy being generated by Cameron and Jacobovici's book and movie. My hope is that Christians might be better equipped with the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Book Recommendation: God-Centred Evangelism By R.B. Kuiper Every once in a while I have the pleasure of reading a book that I can honestly class as being amongst the best in the particular field it seeks to address. R.B. Kuiper’s book...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"The Lost Tomb of Jesus" Exactly the Kind of Deceptive Nonsense Christians Should Expect Unless you live somewhere not able to receive TV, Radio, or internet communications, chances are good that you have heard about the upcoming Discovery...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Last night I was listening to a lecture on the Emergent Church and the speaker made the comment that of late Christianity Today has been publishing articles commending that particularly corrupting movement. I was glad he said that because I was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THOMAS WATSON ON "PRAYING IN FAITH" What does praying in faith imply? Praying in faith implies having faith, and the act implies the habit. To walk implies a principle of life; so to pray in faith implies a habit of grace. None can pray in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Prayer & Power in Preaching Last week we read E.M. Bounds on the necessity of unction to effective preaching, now we conclude with his thoughts on the key to unction – prayer: “Somehow the practice of praying in particular for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What is “unction?” Those of you who have listened to our sermons may have noticed that we often pray for God’s unction to attend the preaching of His word, and it may be that you are unfamiliar with this term. E.M. Bounds...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
George Barna’s Revolution At one time George Barna and his ilk told us that the wave of the future was that all churches would have to become "seeker sensitive" and culturally relevant in order to survive in the next millennium. Via books...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Conversion at Nuremburg Some time ago I read a book published by Evangelical Press called, War and Grace, which is made up of a series of short biographies which tell how the gospel affected the lives of several soldiers and civilans during the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The original conversion of Europe to Christianity was not accomplished by the sword or by armies, it was accomplished by individuals like Patrick. Patrick was a Briton taken as child to be a slave in Ireland, who escaped but felt a call to return...[ abbreviated | read entire ]