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February 2005

What is evangelism

February 16, 2005

SCOTWISE quotes Robert Munger: “Evangelism is the spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ.”

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The biggest killer of our generation

February 16, 2005

I like it when old posts get recycled. Comment Me No Comments has linked to an old post of mine which made an analogy between abortion and a car crash. It was a favorite post of mine, and as is common with favorite posts it didnt get taken up as much as Id have liked. [...]

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Brian Maclaren – a generous neo-liberalism?

February 16, 2005

Albert Mohler: “Even though he would be more appropriately categorized as a “post-evangelical,” McLaren was listed as one of 25 influential evangelicals in the February 7, 2005 edition of TIME magazine. In its profile, TIME referred to a conference last spring at which McLaren was addressed with a question related to gay marriage. “You know [...]

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Christian Carnival

February 16, 2005

Wittenberg Gate has the latest carnival and for once I was organised enough to enter it and have even remembered to link to it!

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Another theolical professor starts a blog

February 16, 2005

A warm welcome to Dr. Thomas Howe, Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages who has recently begun a blog

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Penal substitution explained by John Piper

February 16, 2005

My hero John Piper has made his book defending the classical view of the atonement available for free online. I shall no doubt blog through that book. The blurb says “Does Christ’s life-long record of perfect obedience to God get ‘credited’ to your account when you trust in Christ and are ‘justified’ by God? This [...]

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The simple gospel according to John Piper- Did Christ Die for Us or for God?

February 16, 2005

john Piper explains that the cross was the answer to an essential problem- the problem of how God can simply overlook sin: “God’s righteousness is at stake. His name or reputation or honor must be vindicated. Before the cross can be for our sake, it must be for God’s sake.”. Piper uses the example of [...]

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The simple gospel of penal substitution according to Paul

February 16, 2005

ESV Bible Online: Passage: Romans 5 says it fantastically, Christ died in our place that we might be forgiven. He took Gods wrath away and by his one act made our righteousness possible. The only valid way of interepreting this passage is as a reference to some form of penal substitution. 6 For while we [...]

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The implications of denying the simple gospel of penal substitution

February 16, 2005

Have just been reading Dabney on the atonement online. People wonder why many of us prefer theology by a bunch of dead guys to some of the modern stuff. Dabney catelogues many scriptural proofs of penal substitution and highlights Galatians 3:10-14 as one of the foremost texts: “For all who rely on works of the [...]

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The gospel according to John

February 16, 2005

My old friend and fellow conspirator Nick Queen at Patriot Paradox has posted on how the simple gospel is best summarised by John 3:16. He also makes the point that salvation itself comes through the agency of faith which I totally agree with. The other things I mention are simply the working out of what [...]

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An even simpler gospel?

February 15, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER: “The best definition I have ever heard of the gospel is that it is the complete story of who Jesus is and what he has done for His people. I would modify it this way and say that the gospel is the story of: * All that Jesus is * All that Jesus has [...]

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Expository preaching

February 15, 2005

9Marks does a fantastic job of defending preaching, the website begins Why don’t we just quit preaching? Considering the widespread popularity of engaging anecdotes and vivid vignettes, wouldn’t it be more effective to simply tell a few captivating stories on Sunday Morning? And why think specifically about expositional preaching – that brand so often associated [...]

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Defending C. S. Lewis

February 15, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER on C. S. Lewis:David admits that there is much about C.S.Lewis he would disagree with and concludes “I would hope that most of us are to the point where we can read people who are different from us and take the good from their writings and discard the things we disagree with. For now, [...]

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Do you accept the simple gospel?

February 15, 2005

People are still responding to my post on the simple gospel Richard explains himself very well and makes it quite clear that he doesnt believe Jesus took the punishment for our sin instead of us. What I want to know from my mainstream evangelical blogger friends is this: am I right to doubt that such [...]

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Catholicism and TULIP

February 15, 2005

Ales Rarus has another stab at formulating Catholic teaching on the grid of TULIP

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All you need is grace grace grace

February 15, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER speeaks very well about his marriage and concludes: “So, in my sermon yesterday, I spoke on the Grace-filled love life and shared that what we need in our marriages (and all relationships for that matter) is not better communication techniques or other things. What our marriages need is not more passion and romance, although [...]

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Exposipost: Ephesians 6 The Full Armor

February 15, 2005

RazorsKiss has been encouraged by this passage on spiritual warfare

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Speaking the truth with tenderness

February 14, 2005

Spurgeon once again : “When you preach, speak out straight, but be very tender about it; and if there is an unpleasant thing to be said, take care that you put it in the kindest possible form. Some of our brethren had a message to deliver to a certain Christian brother, and when they went [...]

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Preach the simple gospel with passion and force

February 14, 2005

Spurgeon once more: “If any gentleman here would present me with a cannon-ball, say one weighing fifty or a hundred pounds, and let me roll it across the room; and another would entrust me with a rifle-ball, and a rifle out of which I could fire it, I know which would be the more effective [...]

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Blog widows take note, and the rest of us its time to pray for your favorite blogger

February 14, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER muses on his current absense from blogging: “Your wife, who usually tells you to get off the computer, quit blogging and come to bed, says ‘honey, you haven’t blogged in three days.’ Then when it’s the fourth day and you still haven’t blogged she says ‘you better blog something, there are people out there [...]

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