Category: Theological issues

  • What is God’s Covenant?

    This past Sunday we talked about the covenants God makes with his people.  In part of his series of blogs coming from his new book Doctrine, Mark Driscoll wrote this blog on the idea of covenants from God on the Resurgence website.  A covenant is a divinely initiated agreement whereby he stipulates the condition of…

  • Don’t Waste Your Cancer

    There are stories and moments in life where we have to determine if we believe God is good in the midst of absolute hardship, hard news, and suffering.  Some of us will experience a higher level of this than others, but the notion that our belief in Jesus will remove sickness, suffering, and hardship just…

  • Spiritual Warfare – deliverance or discipline

    We like quick fixes.  It gets easy to blame our problems on a demon and hope for the magic prayer that will make our demons go away.  One of the amazing phenomena in American Christianity has been the growth of deliverance ministries, a litany of so called prophets and exorcists who can deliver you from…

  • Spiritual Warfare – Our enemies: The world

    1 John 2:15-16 (ESV) 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the…

  • Great sermon on sin by John Piper

    Read the blog and other stuff I write enough and you will know that I have a great deal of respect and admiration for John Piper.  I think this is true because just about every time I hear him speak, he somehow has the password to the lock on my heart and his words find…