The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.
I have read and reread the article by Dr.Timothy Keller on The Centrality of the Gospel.   I hope this excerpt challenges you as it does me every time I read it…
Since Paul uses a metaphor for being “in line” with the gospel, we can consider that gospel renewal occurs when we keep from walking “off-line” either to the right or to the left. The key for thinking out the implications of the gospel is …

This is a response to a comment on my post “the happiness of God.” I felt it important to post on this because so many of us seems to glibly make statements about God’s nature without truly thinking it through.  I don’t suggest this was done by my commenter, but it does stir up in me the desire to state emphatically how important it is for us to think!  And especially to think right about God!  Even though he is infinite and all-sufficient, He HAS declared a lot about …

If our faith comments on government at all, its comment must be this – that the man should rule who does not think he can rule.  Carlyle’s hero may say, ” I will be king”;  but the Christian saint must say “Nolo episcopari.” (I do not wish to be bishop).  If the great paradox of Christianity means anything, it means this – that we must take the crown in our hand, and go hunting in dry places and dark corners of the earth until we find the one man who …

There are no ordinary people.  You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal , and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.  But it is immortals whom we joke with , work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn.  We must play.  But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who …

Aside from great writers like CS Lewis,  Jonathan Edwards, John Piper,  and Timothy Keller,  I am an addicted reader of great commentaries on the Bible and am always in pursuit of more fine works.   I want to recommend a series that has gently and winsomely challenged me to a richer relationship with Jesus Christ.  And for those of you who worry about some commentators, Dale Ralph Davis is a Presbyterian!   His commentaries are inexpensive paperbacks that cover the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings.  …

My generation, the “baby boomers,”  have become the most affluent generation in the history of mankind.   With a vengeance, we have invested this new found wealth in an attempt to produce “trophy kids,” now called the “Millennial Generation.”
An October 21, 2008 article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Trophy kids go to work“  Ron Alsop gives an apt appraisal of what this “investment” has produced….
When Gretchen Neels, a Boston-based consultant, was coaching a group of college students for job interviews, she asked them how they believe employers view them. …