As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith... →
Kevin DeYoung
Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in... →
God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don't do... →
Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just... →
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God... →
Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral... →
Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of low-level guilt... →
Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't... →