My Favorite Scene from FireProof

HT: Christian In College
Here is a review I wrote after seeing the movie

PCUSA Watch

As frequent readers of this blog already know, historically I have often written and dialoged in comments, on the fact that the direction the mainline denominations (and specfically the PCUSA) were headed, away from Biblical authority, indicated that eventually they would end up endorsing same-sex marriage among clergy as well as laity.
Well, here is [...]

Is Public Rebuke To Public Error Biblical?

I submit the following to those who “criticize the criticizers” and to those who don’t understand the Biblical precedent for publicly confronting public error:
Christian Research Network posted a satire article that supposes that If Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians was published in Christianity Today today, what the highly possible comments might be. It is satire [...]

The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Six Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning

Todd Friel on WretchedRadio.com interviewed the authors of this book recently. This apparently is a book for kids, which teaches logic and reasoning skills!
I am often amazed at how few people, adults included, do not understand how to formulate a well-reasoned argument or spot a faulty one. I think it is really great to have [...]

Pastoring In A Secular Age

Here is a passage from an excellent book I am currently reading called, “With A Shepherd’s Heart: Reclaiming the Pastoral Office of Elder” by John R. Sittema.
“Churches also can be profoundly affected by the spirit of secularism. On the one hand, many go into long term debt to finance elaborate building programs while giving little [...]

Mark Dever: On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

Here is a great article / interview by C.J. Mahaney, with Mark Dever of 9 Marks Ministries: On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons.
Reading this interview reminded me of a blog I wrote on John MacArthur’s preparation routine. It often amazes me how much effort the Man Of God must go through to bring God’s [...]

Tadd’s “Less Than Grand Apology” Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt

Last night I was preparing a new article based on some comments on my recent post entitled: Sermon Copying: When The World Has More Integrity Than The Church, when my mind was changed on a matter in which I’ve previously commented.
For the sake of brevity, I won’t quote the comments or my response. If you are [...]

Two Kind of Righteousness

The radio show “Fighting For The Faith” covered my article “Sermon Copying: When The World Has More Integrity Than The Church” on yesterday’s show. It can be heard in this podcast, starting around minute 51:00.
More importantly, the following segment covers a great sermon called “Two Kind of Righteousness.” This is an excellent presentation of the [...]

Sermon Copying: When The World Has More Integrity Than The Church

When it comes to matters of integrity and decency, the normal course of events it seems, is that the secular culture and the world often condones that which the church condemns. For example, when the world calls adultery an “affair,” justifies divorce without cause, or calls addictions “diseases,” it is then the church that holds [...]

Grandstaff-ing and Lamb-asting! – “Pastors” Who Threaten Their Flock?

Chris Rosebrough, over at A Little Leaven, shares a video of “pastor” Gary Lamb, who is sharing his biggest regret: not “clubbing a church lady with a baseball bat?”
Is he serious? Visit Chris’ site at the link above to read his commentary, but here is the video for your convenience:

At time marker [...]

Pine Ridge Church-In-A-Box Uses A Lot Of Billboard White-Out!

Did Pine Ridge Church in Graham, NC cover up their salacious billboard? Unfortunately, no. But they did recently cover up the section of the billboard that contains the name of where they meet.
Original Billboard:
Edited Billboard:
How interesting…
A few weeks ago, while driving my normal route, I noticed the billboard advertising Pine Ridge’s new “sermon” series “Bringing [...]