New Hymn: Praise Our Savior, Jesus Christ

I recently collaborated with Dr. Paul S. Jones (church bio/company site) on a new hymn entitled “Praise Our Savior, Jesus Christ.” I prepared (and repaired and re-prepared) the text over a number of months, then at the recommendation of Scott Aniol I ran it by Dr. Jones. He agreed to look at it, then agreed [...]

National Church Planting Conference Workshops Online

The mp3 files of the network sessions from ARCH Ministries’ 2008 National Church Planting Conference in Mentor, Ohio are now online. There were 5 sessions, all of which can be downloaded here (or at the links below). I’ve also made the handout from my session available as a pdf here. Perhaps someone will find it [...]

Purity Is a Positive Pursuit

A few weeks ago I completed a brief series on “Guys and Girls in the Church” with a message entitled “Purity is a Positive Pursuit.” The gist of it is this:
1. Merely avoiding immorality is an insufficient goal.
2. Merely avoiding immorality is an ineffective strategy.
In short, I believe that the pitfall into which many Christians [...]

It’s not exactly an interview, but…

Mark Dever and Dave Doran both chime in on the separation issue over here. (See the comments section for Doran’s thoughts.)
Dever’s post is motivated, I think, by reactions to his interview with Mark Minnick (which can be heard here and which I blogged about here).
Interesting.