A Day at DBTS

Wednesday I have the privilege of preaching in the Student Body Chapel at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. I’ve admired the school and its faculty for several years, and many of my best friends in the ministry are DBTS alumni, so I’m appreciative of the opportunity. I’ve been asked to speak on the topic [...]

Inspiring Stuff

I had heard of “Team Hoyt” before, but a friend recently pointed me to these videos. Amazing.
Here’s an NBC story, and here’s a video montage.
(HT: Craig K)

Borrowing Brains: How Do You Catalogue Resources, Quotes and Illustrations?

I’m constantly coming across resources, quotations & illustrations that aren’t immediately helpful (say, for an upcoming sermon), but which I want to hang on to for future use. Thus far, I’ve just catalogued them in Word docs, or just relied on my own memory. It’s not pretty or effective. I need a [...]

What I’m Reading: The Scarlet Pimpernel and The War of the Worlds

Disclaimer: This post is mostly ridiculous. Two excuses: (1) It’s my day off, and (2) at least I’m not posting on the Nancy Drew book I read with my 10-year-old a while back. (The Secret of Shadow Ranch, for you closet Nancy fans. You know who you are.)
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A few weeks ago I read [...]

Rejoice in Your Savior, Not Just Your Salvation

J.C. Ryle issues the following warning:

“I am afraid that many who profess Christ in our day have lost sight of our Lord’s person. They talk more about salvation than about their only Savior, and more about redemption than the one true Redeemer, and [...]

Ryle’s Holiness: Chapter 12 (The Ruler of the Waves)

I haven’t posted on J. C. Ryle’s classic book Holiness for a long time. However, it has continued to be a great blessing to me, and now that blessing is extended to two men in the church who I’m discipling and with whom I’m growing as we study it together. I’d recommend this [...]

Debasing God and Deifying Man

Andy Naselli provides an insightful quotation from Packer regarding man’s perpetual attempt to make God in his own image. Though Packer seems to be addressing errors in Christian theology, never has the principle he describes been clearer to me than on my trip to Greece last October. The many gods worshiped in ancient [...]

Two Posts I Appreciate

1.  Phil Gons of PastorBlog comments on a church that has the boldness to actually say what many professing Christians only think.  Will every tongue one day confess that Jesus Christ is Love?  Not according to Paul–or Phil.  Good stuff.
2.  Dan Phillips, one of the arsonists at Pyromaniacs, addresses the appropriateness of proclaiming the gospel [...]

Two Video Recommendations

I’m off today, catching my breath from last week, and I’ve come across a couple videos you may enjoy. The first is genuinely inspiring and will make you proud of your fellowman. (HT: Beth Murschell)
The second? Not so much.

Thousands Make a Wretched Choice

Last week I read several blog posts about the Washington Post’s experiment with Joshua Bell. One of the world’s greatest violinists, playing some of the world’s greatest music, on one of the world’s greatest violins? In a Metro station? Only to be ignored? I thought it was clever, amusing, [...]