Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

We’ve been discussing tradition on Sunday mornings at my chrch as we work through New Testament and Reformation history. We Protestants have a strange relationship with history, as Don Carson points out here:
MANY PROTESTANTS ARE suspicious of “traditions.” In popular polemic, Protestants have often portrayed Roman Catholics as embracing the Bible plus traditions, while we [...]

For those of you who aren’t aware (I wasn’t until last week), renowned theologian and scholar D. A. Carson posts regularly on his blog at The Gospel Coalition website. Carson’s blog is called “For the Love of God“. The blog provides little commentary on current events and controversies but is instead more like a running [...]

Zach Nielson (Fb|Twitter) recently posted an excellent series about alcohol. Each one is worth reading and I encourage you to click on the links to each of Zach’s posts:
Part 1
In the next few days I want to interact with what Pastor [James] MacDonald presents here. I care little about resurrecting a tired debate about alcohol [...]

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“Some think of the gospel as so slender it does nothing more than get us into the kingdom. After that the real work of transformation begins. But a biblically-faithful understanding of the gospel shows that gospel to be rich, powerful, the wisdom of God and the power of God, all we need in Christ. It [...]

Let’s try to separate music from the idea of worship for a while.  We’ll talk about it a little bit at the end.
Worship as a noun
1. The feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity : the worship of God
2. The acts or rites that make up a formal expression of reverence for [...]

Ok, I’m done now… I told Anne Marie not to let me go out again.
Here’s the academic stack:

…and the other stack. You’ll notice I out the Bell and Pagitt books between some more solid theological works.  I tried to put them closer to MacArthur but there were sparks.

By the way, we’re going Rob Bell’s church [...]

 D. A. Carson in a talk before last week’s Desiring God national conference:
4. There is a trend in our churches to be consumed by social concern.
In the most intriguing point of his talk, Don said that the Gospel plus caring for the poor was an inseparable couplet. He cautioned that if the gospel was merely [...]