Pure Church

If you've been following the posts on "The Costs of Following Jesus" ( here and here ), you've read about a fictional man...

I profit so much from this brother's teaching! And I'm deeply grateful to God for him. The first minute or so on longing for the k...

I use the Bible reading plan in Don Carson's For the Love of God in my personal times of study. One of the chapters for this morning wa...

Today, I pondered the following meditation for some time: God challenges Jeremiah to find a single honest man on the streets of Jerusalem (5...

Some things I trust have benefitted my soul recently: Mark Dever on "The Pastor and the Church": The Pastor The Church Don Carson...

From D.A. Carson's essay, "Challenges for the Twenty-first-century Pulpit" in Ryken and Wilson (eds), Preach the Word : Countl...

HT: Andy Naselli via JT .

Carson, Keller, and Piper chat it up about: Ministries of mercy... Evangelistic fruit and loving intentionality in mercy ministries, and loo...

A few from the Gospel Coalition describe it and dissect it in brief:

When the pressure to 'contextualize' the gospel jeopardizes the message of the cross by inflating human egos, the cultural pressure...

"What the world dismisses as sheer foolishness, the foolishness of God, proves 'wiser than man's wisdom' (1 Cor. 1:25). Wha...