Sermon: Love One Another, Part 3

Love One Another, Pt. 3 1 John 4:15-21 June 15, 2014 Some things that should be self-evident aren’t as obvious as we might suppose. When he was a football coach, Buddy Ryan was known as being a no-nonsense, tough-nosed coach. He learned well from his father, as an article from 1994 recounts: Leaving Korea as […]

Repentance and regret

There is an eternal difference between regret and repentance. Regret feels bad about past sins. Repentance turns away from past sins. Regret looks to our own circumstances. Repentance looks to God. Most of us are content with regret. We just want to feel bad for a while, have a good cry, enjoy the cathartic experience, […]

The danger of not repenting

When the heart is grown hard and stiff in wickedness, it is hard to tune the penitential string. A tender plant is easily removed, but it is hard to pluck up an old tree that is rooted. An old sinner who has been a long time rooting in sin is hardly plucked out of his […]

The new issue of JBMW is available

The newest issue of The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is available. This is a resource I regularly read and always find helpful articles in it (and now it’s also free!). Denny Burk kicks off the journal by analyzing the troubling fact that it is now okay in our culture to change a child’s […]

Sermon: Love One Another, Part 2

Love One Another, Pt. 2 1 John 4:11-14 June 8, 2014 It is perhaps the worst case of amnesia in the world. Deborah Wearing tells the story of her husband, Clive: Clive had no idea that Tuesday, March 26, 1985 would be his last day of conscious thought. We weren’t ready. Did he feel his […]

The Old Testament in five minutes

James Street, from The Master’s College and Seminary, made this five-minute summary of the Old Testament’s plot: HT: the Cripplegate.

Sermon: Love One Another, Part 1

Love One Another, Pt. 1 1 John 4:7-10 June 1, 2014 While it is true that you never stop being a parent, there are definitely particular transitions in the process of parenting, and this weekend Raye Jeanne and I are crossing one of the big transitions: for the first time, neither of our girls will […]

New book from John Piper

Crossway has just released John Piper’s latest biography, Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis. Here is what Desiring God has to say about the release of this book: Herbert. Whitefield. Lewis. In the sixth volume of The Swans Are […]

Sermon: Discerning the Spirits, Part 2

Discerning the Spirits, Pt. 2 1 John 4:1-6 May 18, 2014 I’ve always been pretty curious, and I like to collect questions and somewhere I picked up these: What color is a chameleon on a mirror? Where does weight go when you lose it? Why are Chinese fortune cookies written in English? Why is abbreviated […]

Words for graduates

What follows is a brief address I gave to my daughter’s graduating class this evening. You’ve made it. Finals are finished. Projects are done. The only thing left is to get that piece of paper from your parents, shift your tassel. And shout. It’s all over but the shouting. Or so they say. You have […]

Inexpensive ebooks by J. I. Packer

Each week Crossway has a sale on some of its ebooks; this week the offering is a package of four books by J. I. Packer: Weakness Is the Way: Life with Christ Our Strength Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging Taking God Seriously: Vital Things We Need to […]

Sermon: Discerning the Spirits

Discerning the Spirits 1 John 4:1-6 May 11, 2014 On this day that we recognize our mothers — and the mothers of our children — we recognize the uniqueness of a mother’s role. And as you have reflected on the way your mother has influenced you, perhaps you’re asking the question today, “what makes my […]

Dr. Pentecost’s memorial service

Here is the video of the memorial service that was held for Dr. P — J. Dwight Pentecost — at Dallas Theological Seminary on Wednesday afternoon: J. Dwight Pentecost Tribute (1915–2014) | Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS).

John Calvin’s last will and testimony

I give thanks to God that, taking compassion on me whom he had created and placed in this world, he delivered me by his power out of the deep darkness of idolatry, into which I was plunged, that he might bring me into the light of his gospel, and make me a partaker of the […]

Repentance and the grace of God

If we understand that no man will ever genuinely repent without the grace of God changing his heart, then we will not feel that we have to dilute the demands of the gospel. We will put our confidence in God. We will remember that, if God is displeased with us, He will not bless us. […]