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Many conservative evangelical and even fundamentalist churches today have transformed the Christian faith into a kind of pop-culture version of The Way. This change began… Read More »Intensely audience-conscious and market-driven
Our immediate awareness of the world comes through the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. What we gain in this way, however, is… Read More »The Importance of Writing
“My faith has found a resting place, not in device nor creed.” So goes the hymn, and if taken over-literally, we might agree. Our faith… Read More »The Use of Creeds
Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts by Harold M. Best. 2003, InterVarsity Press. I had just finished my review of Best’s first book, Music… Read More »Another Beautiful Journey, Another Wrong Destination
Much has been written and posted about being a young man in the landscape of fundamentalism. I don’t remember anyone defining what “young” means in… Read More »Young, Brazen, and Proud
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 This series has been intended to address biblically the necessity… Read More »Relevance is Irrelevant (Conclusion)
The gospel reveals many aspects of God’s character. It certainly reveals His love, mercy, grace, goodness, and kindness. If we want to know whether the… Read More »Justice, Wrath, and Propitiation
Reading works from the Middle Ages is a strange experience. Some of their theological blind-spots seem to us to be so obvious that only willful… Read More »On Loving God
(The articles in this series were originally written for publication in the local newspaper of the town in which I pastor.) So far in this… Read More »Sound Theology
In the most recent issue of In the Nick of Time, Kevin Bauder warns against the dangers of even the recent, more mild forms of charismaticism.… Read More »Charismatic worship?
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 I have been arguing that Paul’s method of ministry deliberately avoided… Read More »Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 13)
There are different varieties of Charismatics, just as there are different varieties of Baptists and different varieties of fundamentalists. Holding one variety of Charismatic responsible… Read More »Charismatic?
Donald Whitney, in his book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life writes, “Watching television is so much easier than choosing a good book, reading words, creating your… Read More »Christians Must Read
Music through the Eyes of Faith by Harold M. Best (Harper Collins, 1993) is not a heavy read, but it’s not light either; the author is… Read More »Music through a sinless lense
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 The first three chapters of 1 Corinthians debunks the importance of the… Read More »Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 12)
It is strange what comfort can be gained from reading other people’s letters! Certainly this is true of many books of the Bible, and it… Read More »Letters of Samuel Rutherford
There’s no question that the issue of race has been and continues to be a matter of severe debate in our country. I am convinced,… Read More »What is race?
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 Modern American evangelicalism has a tendency to augment the preaching of the gospel… Read More »Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 11)
A popular perspective among some evangelicals is that proclaiming morality to unsaved people is a waste of time. As the argument runs, even believers cannot… Read More »Shall We Preach the Gospel or Morality? Part Three: Morality and Gentile Nations
I was a high school freshman when I first heard Mendelssohn’s “Songs without Words.” Wandering through the back of the music room to pick up… Read More »Songs without words