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Note then the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. —Romans 11:22— When God created Adam and Eve, he endowed them with righteousness and a limitless capacity to delight in God’s holiness. On the hill of the Lord, they were…
Read MorePreaching is serious business. And preachers should feel the weight of rightly declaring God’s gospel. Yet, such a serious calling exposes preachers to what Spurgeon called “fainting fits.” When the harvest is plentiful, pride is the preacher’s temptation, but when the response is lean, despair hangs in the air. With such threats, what will preserve…
Read MoreDarrell Bock’s book Recovering the Real Lost Gospel: Reclaiming the Gospel as Good News advertises itself as a “biblical theology of the gospel” (2). Beginning with God’s promise to Abraham, he traces the good news of God from its seed form in the “gospel preached beforehand to Abraham” (Gal. 3:8) to the fullness of the…
Read MoreNote then the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. —Romans 11:22— When God created Adam and Eve, he endowed them with righteousness and a limitless capacity to delight in God’s holiness. On the hill of the Lord, they were…
Read MoreFounders Ministry, an outstanding ministry led by Tom Ascol, is having a Christmas sale (50% off!) on many of their best-selling books, now through Dec. 14th. Here are some of the: By His Grace and For His Glory A Historical, Theological, and Practical Study of the Doctrines of Grace in Baptist Life. Revised and Expanded…
Read MoreWhomever He Wills: A Surprising Display of Sovereign Mercy, edited by Matthew Barrett and Thomas J. Nettles, is now available at Westminster Bookstore for $21.00 (18% off). Publisher’s Description: In Romans 9:16 and 18 Paul states, “So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy …. So then…
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