Free audio book — Don’t Waste Your Sports

For the next week, C. J. Mahaney’s booklet, Don’t Waste Your Sports, is available for free as an audio book at Christian Audio.

Question of the day

This is paraphrased from a message by C. J. Mahaney, given at the recent Resolved Conference: Are you prone to identify evidences of grace in your church family more than criticisms of your church? What are those evidences of God’s grace in your church? It is worth taking a few minutes today to write down […]

Matt Chandler helps prepare us for suffering

Matt Chandler is pastor of The Village Church in the Dallas area. Last Thanksgiving he discovered that he had a malignant tumor in his brain. Doctors were able to remove much, but not all of it, and he was given the prognosis of 2-4 years to live. He is in his mid-thirties with two young […]

The cry from the cross

Two quotes to stimulate your thinking as you contemplate the crucifixion of Christ on this Good Friday morning and His cry from the cross — “About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?’ that is, ‘MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?’” (Mt. 27:46; NASB) […]

Talk to yourself

My children somewhat regularly catch me talking to myself — “what did you say, Dad?” “Huh? Oh, nothing. I’m just talking to myself…” And even if it is not audible, everyone engages in much self-talk each day. In fact, the theologian you consult on the most regular basis is almost certainly yourself. For you listen […]

Sovereign Grace book sale

Sovereign Grace is having their annual, month-long sale during February again this year. Among items on sale are all their books (most under $7), CDs ($6) and album downloads ($5). Among the books that I have found particularly helpful are: Humility: True Greatness Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing Preaching […]

Today’s Quote – Sin and Grace (Mahaney)

C. J. Mahaney, Living the Cross-Centered Life: When you’re deeply aware of your sin, and of what an affront it is to God’s holiness, and of how impossible it is for Him to respond to this sin with anything other than furious wrath — you can only be overwhelmed with how amazing grace is. Only […]

Today’s Quote – Suffering (Mahaney)

C. J. Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness: Those who know true joy in the midst of suffering are those who recognize that, in this life, our suffering is never as great or as serious as our sins. As Jonathan Edwards wrote, “How far less [are] the greatest afflictions that we meet with in this world…than we […]

Today’s Quote – Good Friday (Mahaney)

C. J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: I identify most with the angry mob screaming, “Crucify Him!” That’s who we should all identify with. Because apart from God’s grace, this is where we would all be standing, and we’re only flattering ourselves to think otherwise. Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking […]

Today’s Quote – God’s Wrath (Mahaney)

C. J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Not only will He leave nothing in that cup of wrath for us to drink…but today you and I find ourselves with another cup in our hands. It’s the cup of salvation. From this precious new cup we find ourselves drinking and drinking — drinking consistently, drinking […]

Book Review: Worldliness

For some time, someone has been asking me a question about preaching and the church, “in previous years, you often used to hear sermons on this topic, but now you rarely even hear the word used — whatever happened to worldliness?” What has happened to verses like Romans 16:19? …I want you to be wise […]

Idols of the heart

Last week I listened to C. J. Mahaney’s three-part series “The Idol Factory.” I highly recommend the entire series (though I thought the first two were the strongest). A couple of statements about idolatry from those sermons — “Husband and wife — you desire to have a spouse that relates to you with respect, etc. […]