[Thursdays: Theology] Theology is the study of God, and God is immeasurable. That being the case, how can we fallen humans construct good theology? It’s a great question. Have you thought of it before? Christopher Morgan, co-editor of Crossway’s Theology in Community Series, offers some great thoughts: Still the challenge is enormous. How can we […]

This article from Kevin DeYoung is superb. Here’ s an excerpt: The Lord has been gracious over many years to preserve the unity at our church. So I’m not writing about the members of University Reformed Church. But I’ve seen and heard enough—from other church leaders and from church visitors who end up not staying […]

“Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy…” (Psalm 67:3-4, KJV) “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this […]

Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:13-14) The Puritan John Owen […]

Gordon-Conwell Seminary, a multi-denominational evangelical seminary on the East coast, releases a  quarterly ministry magazine called Contact Magazine. Their Spring 2011 issue features several articles relating to the topic of theology. Here is the issue’s description from their website: Theology tends to get a bad rap in evangelical circles. But this issue of Contact Magazine […]

Brian Croft, Senior Pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, writes about how sharing the greatness of God with children: We make teaching children too complicated.  Children learn like we do, it just needs to be simplified a bit.  How do we as adults learn about the greatness of God?  God’s Word tells us […]

“Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without Him. All delicacies without Christ are but as a funeral banquet. Where the master of the feast is away, there is nothing but solemnness. What is all without Christ? I say the joys […]

A Mission-less Society You might find it hard to believe that in the late 18th century the majority of Protestant churches had very little interest in international missionary outreaches. They believed that Jesus’ Great Commission to go out to all the nations was only for the generation of the apostles. Silly right? Well, this kind […]