Mar. 11, 2008
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Acts 29 · Church Planting · Contextualization · Culture · Mark Driscoll · Marshill · Preaching

Do the Men of the Church look up to John Tesh or Mark Driscoll?

Is Mark Driscoll right?
Do men care about church?
Should men care about church?
Do we, as the church, target the audience before us which statistically is more female( I’ve heard 60%)?
Do we find ways to make sure that men know that Jesus was a man, the ultimate man, a man, that every girl should want to marry, [...]

Feb. 12, 2008
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Life · Messy Christianity · Preaching · Seminary

The Stupidity of the Cross

Here is the audio from my latest sermon at RPTS, the text I preached from was 1 Corinthians 1:18-19, the Sermon was entitled The Stupidity of the Cross.

Oct. 2, 2007
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City Reformed · Community · Divorce · Pittsburgh · Preaching

A Really Great Quote

“The conventional wisdom of the world says your in it till it hurts, the conventional wisdom of the church say never let them see you hurt, and so the resource around us, the friends, the counsel, the prayer, the support that would help us is not there.”
-Matt Koerber
Matt has been preaching on Luke 16, [...]

Sep. 4, 2007
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Mark Driscoll · Marshill · Preaching · Preaching Christ · WTSbooks · missional

How did the Early Church Preach and Teach Scripture?

I just came across a series of books by Hughes Oliphant Old, which examine how the church over the centuries has understood preaching and teaching the Scriptures. I always run into people that are expository only folks, and I ask them to show me the biblical evidence to prove that we can only preaching exegetically [...]

Aug. 15, 2007
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Bryan Chapell · PCA · Preaching · missional · quote

Another Great Quote

“The missional church does not ask how can you serve me but how can we unite as the people of God for something larger than ourselves, to believe what our presbyterian principles are–that we can do far more corporately as a church, than we can do individually, to believe that deeply and profoundly.”
Bryan Chappell 2007 [...]

Jul. 20, 2007
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Books · Christ · Jesus · PCA · Preaching · Sad · Theology · missional

Another Great Quote - Jack Miller

“I fear that many pastors today have fallen into the error of preaching the doctrines of grace theoretically instead of preaching them practically and using the truths of Scripture to draw men to Christ. Instead of using the Bible as our instrument to draw men into fellowship with God, biblical doctrine has become our grounds [...]

Jun. 28, 2007
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Christ · Church · Gospel · Preaching · Preaching Christ · Theology · Tim Keller

Keller On Preaching

If you have not checked out the Gospel Coalition’s new website, you need to. They have posted 5 videos from their recent conference.
Here is a quote from Tim Keller’s talk entitled “What Does Gospel Centered Ministry Look Like?”:
“The basic subject of every sermon ought to be Jesus! It Doesn’t matter what passage, It doesn’t [...]