Expository Mutterings
At my first Ph.D. seminar at SBTS, Dr. Pennington shared this prayer from Thomas Aquinas. It is a wonderful example of the humble, eager, Spirit-needing students of God’s word we must be. I’m going to print this out—card stock, nice font—and put it next to my computer.
I’ve received that email, that message, that call. And I’ve talked with other pastors and ministry leaders who are answering the same question. Maybe you’ve sent your pastor an email asking why they posted what they did about the killing of George Floyd, the protests, the riots, injustice, racism, our President, and more. Nothing wrong […]
It’s heartbreaking to see injustice compounded across our nation by violent protests, violent policing. It is so clear how we desperately need the Prince of Peace. While looking at our country, we should observe that uproar doesn’t happen in vacuum. There is a reason our nation is here. Centuries of reasons, beginning with the African […]
One reason why some Christians buy and spread conspiracy theories? They are bored by the true skandalon of the cross and the tomb. The shock of the gospel doesn’t quite pop the neurons and flame the heart like before. So they settle for digital, emotional, viral mud pies in the slums, yawning at the holiday […]
It’s true. More or less. Now, if you didn’t know, my book, Humble Calvinism, rounds out with an afterword from the Prince of Preachers. I took a few different tidbits from Chuck on Calvinism, knit them together in the womb of Microsoft Word, and an afterward from Spurgeon was born. Kinda fun. Now, when Kevin […]
Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite? Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate? Do I confidentially pass on to another what was told to me in confidence? Can I be trusted? Am […]
When the Bubonic Plague came to Luther’s town, he addressed it with the punch and pastoral heart we expect from Martin Luther. I’ve bolded the best quote. This I well know, that if it were Christ or his mother who were laid low by illness, everybody would be so solicitous and would gladly become a […]
I took the Call to Worship used by Immanuel Nashville that was edited by Ray Ortlund—that I think has roots from 10th Presbyterian Church—and edited a new call for our live stream during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feel free to use it. Call to Worship To all who are weary and need rest;to all who feel […]
Kanye West says he’s a born again Christian. He says he’s going to be spreading the gospel. His Sunday Service concerts feature gospel music, reading the Bible, and a sermon from Adam Tyson—a non-celebrity pastor of a normal church in California and a Master’s Seminary alum. Kanye and Tyson got connected by someone simply inviting […]
