• "If you don't have anything to show that you have a changed heart, there's a good reason to question whether you've actually been saved in the first place."
  
  Mark Byron explains why Christians do need to change their behaviour...
  
  
  (tags: atonement gospel)
• "The doctrine of justification by faith is the very life and nerve of the Gospel itself."
  
  Phil Johnson continues his series on the Reformation principle of sola fide, the "one doctrine [which] encompasses the heart and soul of everything that is essential to Christianity, everything that is fundamental to our faith."
  
  
  (tags: doctrine faith pyromaniacs)
  
• "... real relevance is simple: know and love people who are not believers. Love is always relevant ... let's get out ... and go be with people. I suggest [we get to] know unbelievers and spend time asking them questions to learn about their perceptions."
  
  Relevance or faithfulness? Mark Lauterbach asks, "Are we doing everything we can to explain the Gospel faithfully in terms most readily understood by our hearers? Are we seeking to remove every obstacle except the cross?"
  
  (tags: gospel missional)
  
• "The day the squirrel went berserk, In the First Self-Righteous Church, In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula, It was a fight for survival, That broke out in revival, They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!"
  
  Jollyblogger leaves for "the convention" and plans to bring revival to the PCA - listen to just how he plans to accomplish it!
  
  (tags: humor jollyblogger)