Why The Doctor Did Not Approve Of Theological Degrees

Here's a notable post from Adrian Warnock. It deals about the undue emphasis on theological degrees and Scriptural knowledge attainments. We have forgotten, as J.I. Packer said, that there's a difference in "knowing about God and knowing God." The former is a means to and end, the latter. Yes, most of us know that. But how few of us truly endeavor in our hearts to labor for this knowledge with a heart-felt reality in hunger ...

First Effect of the Gospel: Make People Stop & Think

So the first effect of Christianity is to make people stop and think. They are not simply overawed by some great occasion. They say, “No, I must face this. I must think.” That is the work of the Spirit. The people in Acts thought again. They repented—the Greek word is metanoia—they changed their mind completely. The Spirit always leads people to think, and, as I have been showing you, the greatest trouble is that men ...

A Failure to Think.

It seems as the default understanding of Christian faith in the modern Church world, that faith is something that is felt and experienced, never something mingled with thought and logic. Dr. Martyn-Lloyd Jones, while commenting on Matthew 6:30 in his Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, suggests otherwise. Instead, the Biblical teaching is that faith and thought belong together, and believing is impossible without thinking. "But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which ...

Biblically Correct Evangelism Starts With…

God loves you!...? All you do in evangelism, some say, is to call people to 'come to Christ', and you offer forgiveness. You call upon them to 'decide for Christ'. They generally go on to say that if you afterwards go to the other meetings you will learn a deeper doctrine, a profound truth; but in an evangelistic meeting there is only a simple message - it is "Come to Jesus; come to Christ, decide for ...