“Preachers are “God’s fellow workers” (2 Cor. 6:1). Their efforts are not causative in power, but they may be instrumental in function (1 Cor. 3:5-9)… God does use preachers, but they don’t shake anything up. It is God himself who raises his deadened church to life. Therefore our self-exaltation is preposterous. The great principle driving all of history applies with …
“It is possible to coddle some secret sin, some pet indulgence kept hidden away in our back pocket for the occasional spree. We may think that, when we get tired of it or when it becomes a little too much for us, we can easily drop it and come back to God, no problem. Oh really? How do we know …
We live in strange times. While the Bible-believing church is polarized on a wide range of hot-button “issues,” it neglects the powerful truths lying at the center of our faith. The atmosphere of contemporary evangelicalism too often is overreaction and misplaced enthusiasm. We are not as biblical as we think we are. For example, some earnest Christians seem afraid of …
Revival is a season in the life of the church when God causes the normal ministry of the gospel to surge forward with extraordinary spiritual power. Revival is seasonal, not perennial. God causes it; we do not. It is the normal ministry of the gospel, not something eccentric or even different from what the church is always charged to do. …
