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Last night, our small group studied through Hebrews 12:1-2:
Hebrews 12:1-2

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, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of [...]

I blogged about the beginning of the series here, but Phil Johnson has now concluded his series of posts on Paul at Mars Hill ( the latter half of Acts 17).
The posts in the series are, in order:

Context and Contextualization (Not technically part of the series, but what led to the series to begin [...]

Our church is going through the Way of the Master Basic Training course on Sunday nights. And it just so happens that John Piper preached on evangelism Sunday, in a sermon titled You Are God’s Midwife for the New Birth of Others. We downloaded and watched it last night, and I highly recommend it:
…Tell people [...]

Phil Johnson discusses Paul, culture, and contextualization of the Gospel in Acts 17:
Here was Paul, surrounded by the most high-powered minds of the most intellectual city in the world, and he has an opportunity to speak to them.
Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in [...]

It is amazing what leaving something out can do to the meaning of an idea.
A great example of this is a new blog, Garfield Minus Garfield. From the description on the site:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar [...]

Preparing to teach on Hebrews 11:1-3 this week, I came across the following from Matthew Henry:
Hebrews 11:3

3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. (ESV)

We have here one of the first acts and articles [...]

Matthew 7:1-2

7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. (ESV)

Thus saith the Geneva Reformers:

We ought to find fault one with another, but we must beware we do it not without cause, or to [...]

Why do we not evangelize? Mark Dever provides one explanation: it has the potential for immediate discomfort. Someone might get mad at us, they might reject our message, etc.
We typically want to process our experiences immediately, and if they are unpleasant, we are inclined to change course in order to some way avoid the discomfort [...]

I ran across a verse the other day that made me pause…
Matthew 8:12

12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (ESV)

What’s this? The sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness? How is that even [...]

Carl Trueman at Reformation 21 has a good post called Pride, the True Heresy. In it, he makes the excellent point that one of the problems with the false teachers of 1 Timothy is that
[T]heir desire is not to teach but to be teachers. There is an important difference here: their focus is on their [...]