Pure Church

Today I celebrate 18 years of marriage with my bride. Eighteen years ago she had the most incredible lapse of judgment--she said, "Yes...

I really appreciate his presence of mind in finishing the brief segment! HT: Kerux

HT: kerux

In an earlier post , I mentioned some of the outstanding preaching made available at the Carey Conference by the great pastors and exposito...

“The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.” That will preach! From Matt Redman (HT: Worship Matters )

So I'm looking at the blogs I follow, all of them good, and I'm thinking I want to read some unusual suspects. But the problem with ...

The Anyabwile family is having perhaps the best family vacation we've ever had. For totally different qualities, N. Ireland and Scotlan...

Somebody somewhere in the blogosphere recently plugged The Puritan Reformed Journal. It prompted me to dig out an old issue of the journal....

The more I preach, the more I passionately agree with Piper in this short video . And I agree with him not because I'm a Greek scholar...

The NY Times published a couple days ago a story called " Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich ." (Now doesn't that...

"For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death...

Two posts today really lifted my heart. They both were meditations on grace in their own way. First, was Lee Irons' comments on the Law ...

It was a great privilege to join the guys at Christ the Center for an interview on the life and ministry of Lemuel Haynes . I hope it might ...

Some gems from the 9Marks interview : The Local Church and Cultural Resistance "A local church, a congregation, is the basic unit of cu...

Watch John Piper reflect on John 4:27 ("They marveled that he was talking with a woman") here .

Sometimes the things that impact us most are things we hear in passing. It happens with conversations and sermons all the time. Someone says...

The folks at Sovereign Grace put together the best conference I know of for folks involved in leading public praise. The conference blends ...

Me : Sweetie, that was a wonderful dinner. Thank you for putting so much love into it. Wife : I'm glad you enjoyed it. What are about to...

Iain Murray paraphrasing Lloyd-Jones in his biography of Lloyd-Jones (vol. 1): "The church's worst enemy is the man of little fait...

Perhaps the most rewarding thing a pastor receives from the Lord is some sense or evidence that his preaching is bearing fruit with his peop...