Tag: the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Good News vs. Good Behavior
Some not so good news for church youth ministries (and parents) – we’re leaving our young people with questionable (putting it mildly) theology. A person I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know, Kara Powell, the executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute, was recently interviewed for Relevant Magazine. She has written and [...]
Plastic Jesus, Lifestyle Evangelism and the Greatest Story Never Told
Does your life reflect a real or plastic Jesus? From IgniterMedia.com I can relate to both, you? Yet our churches are likely filled with people like the man in the video and we say we rely upon lifestyle evangelism. Friends, I can’t live the Gospel. Thank God my life is not the Gospel. We are [...]
Art Azurdia: Unequaled Greatness of the Son of God
TruthCrossing provides excellent devotional content on YouTube. This clip below is from Art Azurdia, who is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Director of Pastoral Mentoring at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. Jesus Christ, the friend of sinners, paid a steep price so we could come to Him. Will you turn to Him or turn [...]
It Is Not Whether Korans Should Be Burned, But Who Should Burn Them!
Just to clarify the position I expressed in my other posts, I do not think it is a good idea for a minister of the gospel to burn Qurans. Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center should go to where Muslims are and preach the free grace and forgiveness of God gained by Jesus [...]
The Gospel of God and Glenn Beck
One of our contributors at Caffeinated Thoughts (and here!), David Shedlock, has blogged extensively about Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny event and Restoring Honor rally in Washington, DC. Since Beck promoted this as being non-political, rather a religious revival of sorts I thought it would be appropriate to weigh in on it here. I’ve been pretty [...]
Will You Take Me As I Am?
Thank God that He doesn’t expect us to be clean before we come to him. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love [...]
Paul Tripp: The “Nowism” of The Gospel
From Paul Tripp, a pastor at the historic Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, PA, writing at Desiring God’s blog made some interesting points about how grace impacts us in our daily walk with Christ: Jason could explain to you what it meant to say that he had been “saved by grace,” and he knew that [...]
John H. Gerstner: Mercy and Justice Kiss in The Gospel
John H. Gerstner (1914-1996) was professor of Church History at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary. He wrote in his book, The Problem of Pleasure: Why Good Things Happen to Bad People, that only in the Gospel of Jesus Christ can divine justice and divine mercy meet. Only the Christian gospel presents….a way in [...]
Jeremiah Burroughs: The Gospel of Christ
From Puritan Clergyman and Writer Jeremiah Burroughs (1600-1646): The gospel of Christ in general is this: It is the good tidings that God has revealed concerning Christ. More largely it is this: As all mankind was lost in Adam and became the children of wrath, put under the sentence of death, God, though He left [...]
Martin Luther: The Bondage of the Will
From The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther (1483-1546): In John 6:44, Christ says, "No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him." This leaves absolutely no room for "free will." The Lord goes on to explain the Father’s drawing, "Every man therefore that has heard, and has [...]
