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One of the most important, and yet most difficult, elements of Pauline theology is the Apostle’s use of the flesh/Spirit (σὰρξ/πνεῦμα) antithesis. The antithetical construct... Read More

Discussions about sermon preparation tend to gravitate towards subjects involved in the formal processes of moving from the text to the sermon. There is no... Read More

What is the central message of Christianity? This is a subject of timeless importance in a day when many insist that the central message is... Read More

John Newton once wrote a letter on rules of controversy to a fellow minister who informed him of his intention to confront another minister about... Read More

The doctrine of indwelling sin is one of the most important doctrines a Christian can diligently study. If we are going to make progress in... Read More

In a letter to his disciple, Joseph Bellamy, Jonathan Edwards praised Petrus Van Mastrict’s Theologia Theoretico-Practica as being “much better than…any other Book in the... Read More

On Saturday, February 17, 1739, George Whitefield resolved that he would commit himself to the task of evangelistic preaching to the coal miners in Kingswood.... Read More

Over the past decade a floodwater of cultural change in our country has occurred, leaving a massive impact on the church in America. 20 years... Read More

Scripture is full of double-entendres. Often they are found in the historical details in the Gospels that serve to teach spiritual lessons. Perhaps the most... Read More

I have learned–both from personal experience and from pastoral ministry–that change can be among the most unsettling dynamics of life in this fallen world. We... Read More