Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
I’m excited about what God is doing in our city, in particular, in some of the local churches in our city. Below is the info for an event being hosted by Grace Toronto and run by the Ezra Institute (which is run out of Westminster Chapel). The event is coming up on Saturday, May 29 [...]
I’ve been preparing lately to begin preaching through the book of 1 Timothy at GFC. Any time you begin a new book, there is always a lot of background reading that you have to do to set the stage for where the book is going to take you. Most of what you read never makes [...]
Here are a few links you might be interested in if you’re a Christian in or around Toronto or the GTA. John Bell writes on evangelism in the gay village here in Toronto Paul McDonald begins a blog of his summer as an evangelist in the city Good things are happening in Toronto!
Christian Communicators Worldwide has launched a new website called ‘Way to God‘. I looked it over a little bit this morning and was thrilled with what I saw. Of course, that should come as no surprise. Jim Elliff and co. are in the habit of producing great resources for Christians who are eager to pursue [...]
My daughter Susannah is almost two. I love her just about to death. One of her favourite things to do (just like her daddy) is to go outside in the rain. It thrills her to no end to run around and splash in the puddles and get soaked by the falling rain. A few nights [...]
An old professor of mine used to say ‘The teacher’s questions become the students’ dogma.’ In other words, what the teachers fancies with, the students accept and develop. Don Carson puts it a slightly different way. He relates the American Mennonite experience as somewhat paradigmatic of what can happen in any church setting. He says, [...]
The following excerpt is taken from the full article, available here. In order to understand Augustine’s theology of God’s sovereign saving grace, one must first understand Augustine’s view of the will. According to Augustine (and all the ‘catholic’ church after him) the will was free, but only insofar as it would choose what it desired.13 [...]
This morning I found myself finishing up the last few chapters of Luke and realizing again just how desperately I need Jesus. I confess that for much of my Christian life I have seen my need of Jesus mainly in a soteriological sense (i.e. I need his vicarious death to accomplish forgiveness of my sins [...]
Perhaps we’ve missed something. In all of our efforts to “make church relevant”, perhaps we’ve missed that the gospel itself is not relevant. People do not care when we tell them about Jesus. Why should they? I was listening to an album called Awesome God put out for kids by Sovereign Grace Ministries on the [...]
Many have said that the benefit of Mel’s movie is that it gets people talking about Jesus. The unfortunate thing, I have found, is that because of the wrongly placed emphases in the movie, people are generally quick to talk about the wrong things about Jesus. People are quick to talk about the violence in [...]
This is to be part one of a few posts with regards to the movie the Passion of the Christ (the Gospel according to Gibson). To say the least, the movie is (1) Roman Catholic, (2) highly speculative, and, (3) has its emphases in the wrong places. Anyone can nit-pick, however, and the film’s flaws [...]
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