By Greg Gibson
Time Magazine’s 10 Ideas Changing the World: The New Calvinism
“Neo-Calvinist ministers and authors don’t operate quite on a Rick Warren scale. But, notes Ted Olsen, a managing editor at Christianity Today, “Everyone knows where the energy and the passion are in the Evangelical world” — with the pioneering new-Calvinist John Piper of Minneapolis, Seattle’s pugnacious Mark Driscoll, and Albert Mohler, head of the Southern Seminary of the huge Southern Baptist Convention. The Calvinist-flavored ESV Study Bible sold out its first printing, and Reformed blogs like Between Two Worlds are among cyber-Christendom’s hottest links.” The New Calvinism by Time Magazine
What Issues a Pastor Can and Can’t Live With
“…what things can I and can’t I live with as a pastor? Let me throw out a bunch of different examples that are relevant to my particular situation: organs, female elders, universalism, altar calls, humor, multi-site campuses, drums, the KJV, stained glass, racism, infant baptism, no formal membership, sermons limited to 10 minutes, large and high pulpits, TV studio-like acoustics. My goal in what follows is not to give you a sacrosanct playbook, but to illustrate how I go about thinking through practical matters. Let’s take each one in order.” What I Can and Cannot Live With as a Pastor by Mark Dever
Don’t Waste Your Suffering
When God enrolls you in His School of Suffering, listen well, learn the lessons, and pass the course, lest He make you repeat it. How to Pray for Joni Eareckson Tada
Six Personalities Deaf to God’s Word
The #1 reason that we don’t hear God’s Word is unrepentant sin. Sometimes that sin manifests itself in different personalities. Six Personalities That Deflect God’s Word by James Adams
How to Evangelize Your Children
I heard part of this series on the radio, and it was excellent:
“1. Genuine Salvation: More Than a Prayer
2. How Children Come to Faith in Christ
3. Taking Our Children to Church: Is That Enough?
4. How to Deal With Doubt
5. Observing Salvation in Your Child: What Does It Look Like?
6. The Family: No Better Place to Come to Know Christ!”
“I cannot recommend these talks enough to any parent wanting to be thoughtful, careful, and prayerful in the salvation of their children.” Audio and transcripts: How Children Come to Faith in Christ by Jim Eliff
Did the Holy Spirit Replace the Law?
This is a previous article that I edited and expanded. No, the Spirit (alone) didn’t replace the law. But, Jesus Christ’s Person, works (including His Spirit), and words fulfill the Law. Did the Holy Spirit Replace the Law? by Greg Gibson
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