tohu va bohu

I desire effect when I’m preaching. Namely, I want God’s Spirit to illuminate the truth of God’s Word to God’s people. Every preacher is to be a faithful steward and make the word of God fully known that every man would be complete in Christ. So we rightly pray for results and […]

I purchased this postcard from a Wittenburg print shop in July 2004. It is a drawing of the Schlosskirche or “castle church”, the doors of which Luther is said to have nailed his famous 95 theses in 1517. The words in German are from one of Luther’s hymns and are translated: A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark […]

Here are 10 reasons to be thankful for our own copies of the God-breathed Bible.

In Ashamed of the Gospel 2.0, I criticized the man-centered, pragmatic approach of contextualization. I also promised to post four tools God has given us for the sake of making disciples of all the nations. All of the following are founded on the Sword of the Spirit and also require dependence on the […]

If you are not thankful for your spouse, your kids, your family, God’s temporal provisions, and certainly for Christ’s gracious, eternal salvation there is something wrong with you. Really. In fact, if you don’t give thanks for those things today and the other 364 days a year you are sinfully disregarding the Father […]