By Greg Gibson
If You Commit Adultery…26 Consequences
“So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished. (Proverbs 6:25-29)…If we would rehearse in advance the ugly and overwhelming consequences of immorality, we would be far more prone to avoid it.” Counting the Cost of Sexual Immorality by Randy Alcorn
Piper vs. Wright: The Justification Debate Abridged
If you don’t have time to read their books, here’s a concise summary of their differences. The Justification Debate: A Primer” by Trevin Wax
MacArthur: Seeker-Sensitive Movement Is the New Liberalism
“I can listen to a guy preach—put anybody in front of me—and I’ll tell you what his view of Scripture is by what he says. If he doesn’t preach out of the Bible, I know what his view of Scripture is, I don’t care what he says. I don’t care if he wants to die telling me he’s a believer in inerrancy, if he gets up and does not preach the Word of God, that’s his view of Scripture leaking all over the place. Look, every preacher preaches for impact, for effect, for result. You’re up there saying what you think is going to get you the best result….I mean, it’s that simple! It comes down to this loss of preaching.” (GG: Notice the historical development from Norman Vincent Peale (self-confessed Freemason) to Robert Shuller (heretical false-teacher) to Bill Hybels to Rick Warren.) Seeker-Friendly - New Liberalism by John MacArthur
Why Your “Secular” Job Is Really Spiritual: Christ’s Incarnation
“As a student of the Reformation, I have been convinced for decades that the sacred-secular tension that my wife feels and that many who have grown up in the evangelical community feel, arises from a misreading of Scripture, and a misunderstanding of the nature of God and his relationship to creation. Beginning in the ancient church there was a wedge driven between the material and the spiritual with a corresponding wedge drawn between the secular and the sacred…Certainly the fact that the Incarnate God worked at a secular and ordinary (GG: carpenter) job, gives the lie to the idea that it is only “the spiritual” that matters. The eternal Son of God, by, through and for whom the entire universe was created, out of love and compassion for His creation, united himself eternally to humanity in its ordinariness and its physicality.” God and the Ordinary by M. James Sawyer
5 Distortions of the Gospel
1) The Cake Mix Gospel
2) The Cultural Gospel
3) The Cool Gospel
4) The Carnal Gospel
5) The Careful Gospel
5 Distortions of the Gospel in Our Day by James MacDonald
The Gospel Is for Unbelievers and Believers
“In counseling, I often come across two kinds of people: Some people think they are true Christians, but are probably not. They need a dose of gospel confrontation. Other people doubt they are true Christians, but probably are. They need a dose of gospel comfort.” Gospel Confrontation and Gospel Comfort by Trevin Wax
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Greg,
So true. To whom much is given much is required.
God bless,
Will