Expository preaching presents some amazing challenges at times. In preaching through the lives of Elijah and Elisha some passages just flow, but some make you scratch your head. Recently I was working on the story of the floating ax head in 2 Kings 6. Understanding the story is easy enough. The prophets of God had…
This series of wisdom statements in Proverbs 16 can help you to navigate the many decisions you make in life, big and small. A man’s heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. (Proverbs 16:9) He who heeds the word wisely will find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he.…
Years ago as a young preacher boy (I embrace the term!), I sat under a young Mark Minnick as he taught a number of us “Pulpit Speech,” a Junior level speech class. The men in that class are well fixed in my memory, some of them among my closest friends to this day. One even…
It’s no fun when someone takes something from you that you weren’t looking to get taken. It’s just not a good way to start your day when you walk out to your car in the morning to find a thief has substituted your wheels with cinder blocks. How many ice cream stand owners out there…
Is physical exercise a good thing? Over some coffee at Connecticut Muffin last week, some pastor friends and I discussed the subject of physical exercise. Is it good? Is it important? We can answer this question by giving attention to 1 Timothy 4:7-8, which says: Exercise yourself toward godliness. For bodily exercise profits a little,…
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance (Psalm 90:8) For Roman Catholics the secret is out, and now we realize it involves the most revered in Church leadership. Last week in a National Review article Michael Dougherty concluded that there will be no “biological solution” to the…
As a follow-up to Dr. Mincy’s thoughts yesterday, I thought it might be helpful to consider this question briefly. The term, worship, has several meanings according to Dictionary.com, but the ones we are most interested in are these: As a noun, “reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any…
Worship of the true God is the most noble act that mankind can do. Worship is the specific act of a Christian bowing before God (either literally or in the heart), ascribing to our God the fact that He alone is God, and that we worship Him for the perfections of His character and for…
Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes Nancy Pearcey Publisher: David C. Cook, 2015 Review by Don Johnson Finding Truth is a relatively recent book (pub. 2015). Others have taken in hand to review it already. For a survey of the main argument of the book, you can see Challies’…
FrontLine May/June 2018 | VOLUME 28 | NUMBER 3 Membership Matters Church membership, graphically portrayed here as a flock of sheep under their shepherd, is one of the most important and practical areas of theology. Church is where almost all the rest of the “-ologies” are put into practical function. Paul declared that the church—and…