Archive for October 2014
Credo’s Cache
Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache: 1. The Mars Hill Postmortem: By Trevin Wax – Wax says: “In our celebrity-driven world, we are more apt to promote and praise people simply for attracting attention than for demonstrating faithful…
Read MoreHow to lead your worship service this Reformation Day – Sola Fide (Matthew Barrett)
In my last two posts (go here and here) I have been seeking to give pastors and worship leaders an example of what it might look like to structure their church services around the solas of the Reformation for five Sundays leading up to October 31. The aim in all of this is to take…
Read MoreThe Wonder-Working God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Miracles (Interview with Jared Wilson)
There is never any shortage of fascination with the supernatural. Be it in, or outside of the evangelical world, the miraculous is something we simply can’t ignore. For some it becomes an obsession, while for others it feels safer to pretend it doesn’t exist. For Christians, the subject of miracles is one we should seek…
Read MoreThe Duty of Searching the Scriptures (George Whitefield)
In the recent issue of Credo Magazine, “George Whitefield at 300,” George Whitefield himself contributed! Whitefield’s sermon, “The Duty of Searching the Scriptures,” a sermon based off of John 5:39, is a wonderful exhortation to digest God’s Word for spiritual nourishment. Here is the start of the sermon: When the Sadducees came to our blessed…
Read MoreSunday’s Sermon (Schreiner, Barrett, Zaspel)
Three of Credo Magazine’s main contributors include Thomas Schreiner, Fred Zaspel, and Matthew Barrett. Each of them are professors, but they are also pastors. So each Monday morning we will be highlighting their “Sunday’s Sermon” on the blog to provide you with encouragement throughout the week and an opportunity to study God’s Word.
Read MoreThe Beauty and Sweetness of the Word
While there is certainly a great deal more to say from this work, this is the final post (at least for a time!) where I will be noting some helpful points from The Religious Affections, by Jonathan Edwards. Here Edwards seeks to point out the beauty of the Word of God, namely, the substance from which we…
Read MoreCredo’s Cache
Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache: 1. Self-Control and the Power of Christ: By David Mathis – Mathis says: “For the born-again, our hearts are new, but the poison of indwelling sin still courses through our veins. Not…
Read MoreOrdinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World
Michael Horton’s new book, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World, is on sale at Westminster Bookstore at 37% off! Here is the book’s description: Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there s a next-best-thing, if only we would change our comfortable, compromising lives. In fact,…
Read MoreLook at the Book: Reading the Bible for Yourself
The video for the 2014 Desiring God National Conference are now available. Here are some of the sessions Piper gave from his series, “Look at the book.” You can view many other messages here. Scripture: The Kindling of Christian Hedonism Free from Judgment, Fighting Sin, Full Assurance Groaning Creation, Groaning Saints, Groaning…
Read MoreThe Four Most Influential Theological Books I’ve Read (Timothy Raymond)
I often debate in my mind which books are the best books I’ve ever read. By the grace of God I’ve been able to read hundreds of great books throughout my life. So, trying to identify the “best” is really impossible. It’s sort of like trying to identify which is the best ice cream cone…
Read MoreEhrman v. the Facts: Review by Zaspel
There is no zeal like the zeal of a convert. It doesn’t matter much which way the “conversion” goes, whether from Protestantism to Catholicism or from Catholicism to Protestantism, from socialism to capitalism or from capitalism to socialism, from agnosticism to Christianity or from Christianity to agnosticism. We’ve all seen it. Converts invariably have their…
Read MoreThe Infinite Dignity of the Person of Christ
Sometimes we need a jolt to awaken us out of our apathy and to reinvigorate our passion and love for God. For me, a thinker like Jonathan Edwards often provides that jolt. Again, coming from his work The Religious Affections, Edwards seeks to point his reader to the true realities of the greatness of God. Often…
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