23 days ago by Tim

Mrs. Blackburn - After writing about preaching ordinary sermons, I received a link to this article which carries on the theme quite nicely. It is a tribute to a very ordinary Sunday school teacher who left an indelible mark. The Chicken of the Sea - Dr. Mohler has written a wonderful article about t ...

44 days ago by Bob

The Top 15 Blogs I’ve Enjoyed in 2011 I love blogs. Here are the top 15 blogs that I have enjoyed reading and have benefitted from in 2011. They’re in alphabetical order, so as not to suggest “competition” between them. I noticed a few “common denominators” among my favorite blog sites. These common ...

54 days ago by Pete Scribner

"The tendency to isolate our sermons to one tiny piece of biblical text is a major problem, and it also explains why so much evangelical preaching is moralistic. It is easy to pick out a familiar story, make a few points from it about what people should do and should not do, and then be done with it ...

63 days ago by Tim

Digital Childhood - Dr. Mohler writes about the rise of the digital childhood. “The easiest way to infuriate the young is to lean into nostalgia. Nevertheless, it’s hard not to be nostalgic for a childhood in which the basic equipment for elementary school was pretty much limited to notebooks, penci ...

72 days ago by Tim

Celebrity Pastors - This article from TGC has some good things to say about celebrityism and celebrity pastors. “But celebrity comes for a variety of reasons. It’s worth differentiating between the kinds of celebrities generally, and between celebrity pastors in particular.” What the Tolerant Must T ...

88 days ago by comotuycomoyo

[…] There are numerous ways to frame these questions wrongly. Our responsibility as evangelical Christians is to think seriously and biblically about these issues. The first temptation is to reduce all of these issues to one question. We must address the question of Mormonism as a worldview and judg ...

99 days ago by Howard Merrell

I am doing my reading in a Kindle reader on my computer, so I don't have page numbers, but what I'm writing about is toward the end of the book, Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology) It is near the beginning of John Stackhouses response to Al Mohler's chapt ...

115 days ago by Martin Olson

Recently, the SCPR spent time talking with a number of the candidates for Massillon City Council (both Rs & Ds) as well as an official in the Cicchinelli administration about their take on the upcoming election. The read that The Report is getting is that this will be a very close election across al ...

116 days ago by strengthenedbygrace

Dr. Albert Mohler wrote a piece for CNN.com that has generated over 75 pages of comments. Mohler is responding to the steady drumbeat from some voices that evangelicals are really scary people from whom are society needs to be protected. Mohler documents many who are making such claims and then coge ...

116 days ago by Tim

Monday with Mounce - Wouldn’t it be great to have mastered Greek? “One of the beauties of knowing Greek is that you get to see nuances of meaning that are often lost in translation. It’s not that the translators don’t see the meaning; it’s that they simply cannot bring it over smoothly into English. ...