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If you've attended T4G in 2006 or 2008, one thing you were no doubt touched by was the singing (esp. in 2006 in that tight hotel ballroo...

My man Lance is casting vision for the reform of predominantly African-American churches. Part One Part Two Part Three More to come.... The...

Okay... maybe not every night. But he did last night, and he offers some good historian's reflections .

I'm looking forward to ordering copies of Wendy Horger Alsup's new book, Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Diffe...

The Together for Adoption Conference is slated to kick off November 1st in Greenville, S.C. The schedule promises an edifying and challengi...

I must be due a season of suffering. That's the sense I get as more and more the Lord turns my attention to passages and themes of Scrip...

Two years ago, I drafted a post firing many of the major Black Civil Rights leaders on behalf of all of African America. My wife, discerning...

Rare fraternal twins born to German parents demonstrate that we are all descended from Eve, mother of all living. One of the twins is black-...

Earlier I linked to John Piper's sermon on July 13, 2008 entitled "How Important Is Church Membership?" It's an excellent ...

That's the question John Piper tackles in the first of a three-part series addressing baptism and church membership. Should be a good se...

The Lord has granted me the honor and privilege of speaking at Worship God '08. I'm greatly looking forward to the fellowship with ...

My wife just sent me this ecnouraging reminder: "And if it be deemed a great wickedness to contaminate any thing that is dedicated to G...

This past Lord's Day, the Lord granted us the privilege to hear 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 expounded. We meditated on the fellowship of suffer...

Greg Gilbert is a " flaming populist" when he's not the leader. Read why he shouldn't be, and we shouldn't either. C...

"What is preaching? Logic on fire! Eloquent reason! Are these contradictions? Of course they are not. Reason concerning this Truth ough...

Last night I leafed through John H. Armstrong (ed), Reforming Pastoral Ministry, noting things that caught my attention a few years ago when...

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In a culture over-saturated with images and the clanging of many sounds, hearing is undervalued. Extended attention to words and sentences a...

Grudem's chapter in Preach the Word offers some helpful reminders on correctly interpreting the Scripture. 1. Spend your earliest and b...

For the past couple of days, I've been working on a pastoral situation where it seems nothing has gone right. I've been heavy in sp...