The other day I stumbled upon this little post from Kevin DeYoung on sharing your Christian Worldview in 4 easy steps. I usually avoid such simplification and have a general aversion to “steps” in any Christian discussion, but I actually found this little gem to be rather helpful.
One God. We worship one, personal, knowable, holy God. There are not two gods or ten gods or ten million gods, only one. He has always been and …

I found this interesting video the other day of an 11 yr old boy “preaching”(?) Christ throughout the Bible. I thought it would be good to listen to so I gave it a go.  While I must admit that I was entertained by the little man passionately praising Christ, I was struck by the thought, “this is not Redemptive History!” What I was hearing was really a string of topics which vaguely summarized the content of each book of the bible and then simply ascribed them to Christ. While I agreed with most of the statements as far as they go (i.e. Jesus really is our kinsman redeemer in Ruth et al.) – they had no basis in the text, no demonstration of the truth of the statement. Is this what passes for Redemptive History these days?

The Joy is Gone!
Why is it that church so often is associated with asceticism? Better yet, where has the life and joy gone from means of grace?

A few weeks ago now Westminster Theological Seminary hosted its annual preaching conference with the subject “Cure for the Boring Sermon” and Kevin DeYoung spoke forcefully to us young preachers how we should be clear, specific and authentic with a wonderful crescendo centering on authority. 

Is there anything in our lives that causes us to be angry? As Christians, imaging Christ who overturned tables and rebuked scribes, there should be. Anger is a signal, like pain is a signal, that something is wrong. There are times when expressed anger is a cry for help.

The Roman poet Horace says, “Anger is a short madness”. That sounds familiar to some of us who can ‘get mad’ …

Can Christian Devotion be measured by Google webmaster tools?
I remember hearing the challenge when I was growing up, “If someone found your checkbook, would they have enough to convict you of being a Christian?”
Christians are often manipulated by guilt, especially for their giving, but there is some poignancy to questioning how much tangible evidence there is of Christ in our lives.
This was brought to my attention recently while monitoring this website with Google‘s Webmaster tools. Webmaster tools gets feed back from the Google crawl bots and helpfully returns a list of what they perceive to be the most important keywords on the site based on frequency and prominence.

According to Hebrews 11:1 faith and hope are linked together. They share the “conviction of things not seen”. This has caused many Christians to assume that hope for the Christian is an unrealized desire. A thing that we wish for, but do not yet possess. In a sense, this is true. However, the sense in which this is not true is what I believe we need to appreciate …