Robert, Restless and Always Reforming

  I heard this video clip and had to find out who he was quoting as I love the words he was reciting as they pierced at the heart of this man. As it reminded me that the Kingdom of God is not built by those who desire comfort and like to play it safe. After a little research I found [...]

When asked, “What one piece of advice would you give to emerging pastors?” Let your wife worry about your clothes. Buy books and study. We don’t need any more well-dressed, hip, funny, heretics. Who cares how you say it if what you’re saying is wrong?   – Matt Chandler – Pastor of The Village Church

Previously I posted how the American branch of the Anglican church voted to proclaim the acceptance as a denomination of gay clergy now another denomination gets sucked in the movement. The sad news of the week happened as delegates from the nation’s main Lutheran denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) gathered to hold [...]

    Here is a sermon on defining what is true bibilical masculinity by Matt Chandler who serves as lead pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, TX. The church has witnessed a tremendous response growing from 160 people to over 5000 including a satellite campus in Denton and Dallas. Last year he preached a series [...]

Months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from hunger and cold, the anguish of brainwashing and mental cruelty – these are the experiences of Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian pastor, during his 14 years in Communist prisons.   His crime, like that of thousands of others, was his fervent belief in Jesus [...]

I recently read an past article by Ed Stetzer, director of LifeWay Research and missiologist in residence at LifeWay Christian Resources and his presentation of new data discussing Reformed theology and the Southern Baptist Convention at the “Building Bridges: Southern Baptists and Calvinism“ a three-day conference co-sponsored by Founders Ministries and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and [...]

As I was reading the news it was brought to my attention an article written in The Times Online by one of my favorite Anglican theologians N.T. Wright regarding the possible impending division in the Episcopal Church over the ordination of openly gay clergy. I’m very glad to see N.T. Wright standing on the side of sacred Scripture on this [...]

Men need other men to guide them on their journey, and the journey to true and deep manhood is a wild journey. It is untamed, even though today’s American culture would make us think that true manhood is about easy money, easy friends, easy women, and the type of sports you’re involved in. Those are [...]

First of all, as he states in the preface of the book, this small book is a reprint of a portion of his earlier work, “Future Grace.” This writing is of great benefit for battling temptation because many times we sin because it offers a false happiness.   Here John Piper cries out don’t believe [...]

The author Edwin H. Palmer here provides a little but very helpful, beginner’s book that is extremely easy to read and easy to follow on the five points of the theology known as Calvinism. It’s a compressed systematically compressed manual of the scriptures explaining these doctrines of grace. Palmer tells us at the very beginning [...]