Search

Article

The Accidental Reformation: How Luther and Calvin Reformed the Family

Martin Luther and John Calvin represent two theologians of the Reformation, that Bible-driven movement so long ago, who promoted God’s vision for the family and led many to do the same.

Review

Book Review: A Big Gospel in Small Places, by Stephen Witmer

Do not be misled: this is a book for every pastor in every place. It will spark all sorts of good thinking about pastoral ministry and the work of the local church.

Article

God of the Cross: 5 Recommended Books on the Atonement

Consider recommending these five books on this precious doctrine to your people.

Article

Reformation Doctrine Fuels Reformation Ecclesiology: A Brief History

The Reformation fire has not gone out, nor has the evangelistic zeal of the modern American church died. The Word still speaks—and the gospel still is mighty to save.

Article

Singleness in Modern Culture

Vocation and service: two major areas of life that are often neglected in the pulpit, but that help the people of God find purpose and hope in this fallen, often lonely world.

Article

A Brief History of Complementarian Literature

Just as the Reformation constituted a mighty preaching and writing engine, so evangelical complementarianism has produced many millions of words that have revived and strengthened God’s church.

Article

Complementarianism as a Worldview 

Complementarianism has explanatory power on a range of major, life-shaping matters. But more than this, it has apologetic power, both in the living of this doctrine, and the speaking.

Article

The Wilberforce Test: Preaching and the Public Square

The pastor who preaches for the transformation of his people is equipping them for service in this life that will echo into eternity.

Article

A. T. Robertson, the Book of James, and Dudes with Ambition

If you have not picked up Greg Wills’s recent The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009 (Oxford, 2009), you owe it to yourself to do so.  It’s a huge book, it is an institutional history, and it may seem esoteric, but in reality, it reads crisply, it tells an engrossing story, and it offers wisdom on a great […]

Article

Pastoring the Idle

It is not you, ultimately, who builds the church and awakens the idle. It is Almighty God. He loves your people far more than you do

Article

His Arm Is Strong to Save: A Trajectory of Conversion in America

How have Christians in different periods understood conversion and, more specifically, the means of conversion?

Review

Book Review: The Next Christians, by Gabe Lyons

As we’ll see, there is room for agreement and disagreement in the answers Lyons provides to these questions.

24