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John Piper uses Romans 5 to explain the simplicity of the Gospel here:
The Fatal Disobedience of Adam and the Triumphant Obedience of Christ

Faith and fear go hand in hand. Faith keeps the heart cheerful, fear keeps the heart serious. Faith keeps the heart from sinking in despair, fear keeps it from floating in presumption.
Thomas Watson, All Things For Good, 1663

From D. A. Carson:
I would like to buy about three dollars worth of gospel, please.
Not too much – just enough to make me happy, but not so much that I get addicted.
I don’t want so much gospel that I learn to really hate covetousness and lust.
I certainly don’t want so much that I start to [...]

There’s an article in today’s Independent titled “Boys like blue, girls like pink - it’s in our genes.”
According to researchers at Newcastle University,
“On top of the universal preference for blue, females have a preference for the red end of the red-green axis, and this shifts their colour preference slightly away from blue towards red, which [...]

Note: I have thus far avoided politics on this blog, and it is my intention to continue to do so. Personally, I believe that Christians are not called to appeal to the state for solving the problems of the world, whether on the “right” or the “left.” But some things transcend politics, and yes, life [...]

Whoever wrote this video for Lowe’s, on installing wood panel fencing, needs to go back and brush up on poetry interpretation…
(For the full text of Robert Frost’s classic poem, Mending Wall, see here.)

According to the site that does the ratings:
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
death (6x) hell (1x)
By including that information above, the counts for “death” and “hell” jump to 7x and 2x respectively. Actually, 8x and 3x because of that sentence. Anyway, I wonder if that bumps me up to [...]

There’s an intriguing article in First Things this morning from Joseph Bottum. In it, he argues that the recent surge of books on atheism does not represent the vitality of this philosophy; rather, it is indicative of its death throes:
In Michael’s view, there’s an odd defensiveness about all these books—as though they were a sign [...]

Hebrews 12:1

12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (ESV)

A friend of mine taught on Hebrews 12:1-3 this Sunday. And when he talked about [...]

For some reason, an old post from Paul Lamey at Expository Thoughts showed up in my RSS reader this morning. No worry, it’s a good one:
While preparing a sermon on Jude 5 i came across a great quote by Pastor Matthew Henry. This comment reflects Jude’s thought in a fresh way (Jude 1:5 “Now I [...]