Mar
13
2012

A Book That Changed My Life

While I was in college, on a date with my soon to be wife, we dropped into a used bookstore in Chattanooga, TN. While looking through the religious books, I picked up a copy of a book by Charles Spurgeon that I hadn’t heard of before entitled The Greatest Fight in the World. Annually, Charles Spurgeon [...]

Feb
16
2012

The dangers of “exciting” preaching

In my last post on fundamentalism, I made this statement: In my opinion, every single problem that fundamentalism is grappling with today flows from our movement’s weak spot for charismatic speakers who refuse to limit themselves to “rightly dividing the word of truth”. We fundamentalists love our exciting preachers. Of course, each of us has [...]

Feb
14
2012

So You Want To Be A Pastor

Being called to the ministry is a scary thing.  When I graduated from Bible College, I knew that God wanted me to be a pastor.  In my mind though, connecting the dots from where I was right out of college to being the pastor of the church was like trying to build a bridge across [...]