Introducing the 4/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. is as muscular as Mark Driscoll’s language, sermons and general outlook on life. He is absolutely brutal, but thoroughly biblical. Tiny margins and tiny print over 250 pages equals a fine-tuned treatment of the gospel and the practical implications it has on life. Want…
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Introducing the 2/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Baxter’s is a brutal little book. Not brutal in style like Owen. But brutal in content like Owen. Baxter’s is an unflinching prosecutor of the wicked. A man who approaches their conversion and condemnation like their life depended on it. Which it does. The Quick and…
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Last week I talked about how God hates sinners in the first 50 Psalms. How this tied into the statement “God hates the sin, but loves the sinner.” And how that particular post was only half the story. Let’s look at the other half today. God Curses Christ for Our Sins Christ did not deserve…
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This is a good century to be a sinner. You get all the perks of grace and none of the brutality of God’s severity. All of this rides on an overworked phrase that goes a little something like this: “God hates the sin, but loves the sinner.” Quaint. But is it biblical? Sinners 3,000 Years Ago…
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Introducing the 1/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. The title. It is a joke. See, there is something you need to know about Matt. He’s tall. Like six five. And lanky–long in arm, long in fingers and long in legs. I knew this back when I first heard him preach via…
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Last week I published a monster cheat sheet to John Owen’s Mortification of Sin in Believers. As promised here is a list of reasons why every Christian should read the original book. 1. Understand it is your duty to kill sin Ask most Christians and they don’t have a clue what you mean when you…
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You can . John Owen’s Mortification of Sin in Believers is a beast of a book. It’s not a beast in size–it clocks in at 84 pages. It’s a beast in content, language and style: Content: Mortification (killing) of sin doesn’t get a lot of work in our modern churches. Neither do the methods behind killing…
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This is the other side of Never Tell a Child They Are Personally Worth the Sacrifice Jesus Made. The side I seem perfectly incapable of articulating. So much so I actually need someone else to write it to get it right. The person who knows my blind spots inside and out. And protects me against their…
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True, I’m a curmudgeon. But this is a gospel-backed rant. Most contemporary Christian songs make God out to be a supernatural soccer mom. It’s the kind of stuff you hear at high school rallies. Why this slant in the modern church? Because everything else in our culture makes much of us. Advertisements. Movies. Psychology. Self esteem…
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That’s a quote from a discussion I started on Reddit. I asked the question ““ The answers fell into two general categories: one, without question, sharing the gospel was more important. And two, the two are not mutually exclusive. They are the same thing. My own bias leans toward sharing the gospel. In the introduction…
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