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Tokyo Jennifer tagged me with the 7 disclosures meme. So, I think I'm supposed to give 7 things you might not know about me. Here goe...

A new friend and fellow laborer, Kurt Gebhard , sent me a copy of Jerry Bridges' The Crisis of Caring: Recovering the Meaning of True Fe...

I'm enjoying Mark Lauterbach's book, The Transforming Community: The Practice of the Gospel in Church Discipline . It's a rich a...

Yesterday, the Lord granted the great privilege of spending some time with my brother and friend, Dr. Al Mohler. We had a great time on his ...

"Humbled for past unworthiness, let elders work on steadily and prayerfully, looking for and expecting the blessing. There will be fru...

A dear fiend... I mean "friend"... called me last Saturday after my beloved Wolfpack took a beating at the hands of the then-#1 ra...

Three things confuse a Christian; Yeah, four confound any man. Unbelief masquerading as wisdom, Enthusiasm presenting itself as faith, Fear ...

Some time back, the good folks over at NA (check out the new look ) had an interesting conversation going regarding the universal and the lo...

Yesterday we posted part 1 of a quote from J.I. Packer's Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God , in which Packer helps us see that in gi...

Labels are used for convenience, but sometimes prove themselves to be quite inconvenient. As an amateur historian, I appreciate labels when ...

A couple posts back, I mentioned that my personal focus this year is on evangelism and doing the work of an evangelist. Throughout the year,...

Jonathan Leeman over at Church Matters has started a series of posts reacting to Bill Hybel's REVEAL . Should be an interesting ride. H...

Apparently, today's posts are all about books. But if you're like me, those are the best kinds of posts. I read with great interest ...

Tim Challies, author of The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment , is on a blog tour . He's guest blogging on a number of blogs, answeri...

"This brings us to our second point, which is that this beautiful prayer in Ephesians is for us. The "you" Paul is praying ab...

In the City of Compton... Our brother holdin' down West side... in the city of Compton... Ken Jones... has put his sermons on line. You...

Last night, my wife and I stayed up well past our bedtimes watching television. We were gripped with three programs--all at once, since I...

My reading project this year is personal evangelism. So, Lord willing, I'll be working through a year's worth of reading on the topi...

Rarely can a preacher prepare a sermon and not find himself leaving on the "cutting room floor" a substantial thought or quote fou...

Here's another gem the Lord blessed me with over at Christ Is Deeper Still . This one is from John Wesley. What has exceedingly hurt yo...