What Were Spurgeon's Views on Baptism? #christian #podcast #bible

"The church did not give us the canon anymore than Isaac Newton gave us gravity." -Kevin DeYoung, on the self-authenticating nature of scripture

Rereading The Grapes of Wrath and struck by how hostile Steinbeck is toward Christianity. - The novel’s “Christ figure,” Reverend Casy, is celebrated precisely because he abandons the faith. - The only professing Christians who appear are caricatures — finger-wagging,

My latest, with Jamey Norman, at 9Marks. Share with any prison/jail chaplains you know.

Excited to sing this with River City Baptist Church. If you think penal substitutionary atonement is a modern invention, Venantius Fortunatus (AD 530–607) would beg to differ. These words predate the Reformation by a *thousand* years. And most significantly, they are thoroughly biblical.

The thing about not having snacks in the house is that when you get snacky you don't have any snacks in the house to snack on.

What is a Christian? The question can be answered in many ways, but the richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as father. -JI Packer

A godly wife advises her husband on every important matter, and often restraints him from hasty speech…receives him weary, discouraged, irritable, and sends him out again, strong, hopeful, sweet-tempered. -John Watson

TGC is an incredible resource for pastors.

We are convinced churches all over the world need to look more carefully at Paul’s missionary travels and realize that mission trips are about more than evangelism. They often involve equipping churches that already exist to become stronger and healthier. - Menikoff and Singh

The Problem With Live-streaming Church #podcast #church #christian

Yet, as an evangelical academic myself, I find it interesting to note the way in which, with some writers, the perceived faults of more conservative authors are denounced with bombastic rhetoric, while the blasphemies and heresies of those on the left are dismissed with a casual

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though. -J.D. Sallinger

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It seems I've caused quite a stir and upset a lot of people on the internet. Nevertheless, my conscience won't let me retract my controversial statement. I only pray that one day everyone who is angry at me will come to see the truth: Whataburger is the worst fast-food burger.

Biblical Wisdom & Tech #podcast #christian #bible

What is the Intermediate State? #podcast #bible #christian

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Serving the local church as a faithful member is a perpetual spiritual gifts test.

they will complain that a sermon cannot be interrupted, and call a pulpit a coward’s castle; though they do not call an editor’s office a coward’s castle. -GK Chesterton