The Damning Results of Moral Reformation

Andrew Henderson is leading a weekly study through John Owen’s On the Mortification of Sin at his site, The Puritans Society. Thus, I read chapter 7 today (alas, a week behind) and was moved by the dangers of pressing lost people to fight individual sins. Take some time and read the chapter here, especially noting [...]

What I’m Reading: Ordering Your Private World

I just finished Gordon MacDonald’s book Ordering Your Private World. I picked it up in college, I think, when it was all the rage. Almost two decades later, I’m finally getting to it—which may demonstrate that my private world is a mess, and why. There’s some helpful information in the book. MacDonald emphasizes the need [...]

An Open Letter to Dr. Stratton

Dear Dr. Stratton, I said some nice things about you a few weeks back, all of which are true. However, upon reviewing pictures from your recent visit I discovered that you stomped on my daughter Esther on the trampoline. I have a picture to prove it: Poor girl. (Cha-ching!) Knowing that I’m not supposed to [...]

Borrowing Brains: Favorite Missionary Biographies

I’m taking my own medicine. I recently urged the members of TCBC to expose themselves to missions in a variety of creative ways, one of which was reading missionary biographies. I confess that biographical reading is a weak point of mine, and I’d like to rectify that. I’m also preparing to present a missionary biography [...]

Update: You Really Need to Publish a Gospel CD!

In December of 2007, I mentioned here that TCBC had produced a 25-minute presentation of the gospel and had a couple thousand copies made. At the time, I encouraged churches to improve upon the idea. So, if you’ve done it, how’d it go? And if you haven’t, why in the world not?! Seriously, you need [...]

Help Support ChurchWorksMedia.com

Thus far, ChurchWorksMedia.com has been supported almost exclusively by the generosity of people who have donated their time and abilities—writers, composers, artists, techies, etc. However, to enable the site to continue its ministry in the future, including the provision of free hymns and psalms, we’re asking for some financial help via donations from individuals and [...]

Bridges on God-Focused Sanctification

Writing in “The True Christian Life,” his chapter in John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology, Jerry Bridges echoes Calvin’s insistence that justification invariably leads to sanctification, and regeneration (the new birth) invariably leads to holy living (the new life). In doing so, he argues that the bases and motivations for holy living [...]

More on Vick: Burress Gets 2 Years

I suggested in a post last week that the variance between Michael Vick’s doing time for killing dogs and Donte’ Stallworth’s getting a slap on the wrist for DUI manslaughter was a chilling reflection on our society. You can hurt or kill people and we’ll get over it; just don’t mess with dogs. Well, it’s [...]

MTC Interview with Molly Ijames

In May of 2009, four graduates of the BJU fine arts program were honored by the John Ness Beck Foundation for excellence in sacred composition, sweeping the 2009 awards. (Read Scott Aniol’s article about it here.) Previous winners have included accomplished composers such as John Rutter, Craig Courtney, and Howard Helvey.  The winner in the [...]

Reconsider the Call to Foreign Missions

I preached Sunday at Tri-County Bible Church on the call to foreign missions from Acts 13:1-4, a tremendous text that records the church at Antioch’s sending out its first pastors, Barnabas and Saul, to the foreign field. What a great church! What a compelling model for TCBC and your home church in so many ways: [...]