
The anemia of evangelical worship—all the music and energy aside—is directly attributable to the absence of genuine expository preaching.
Preaching, doctrinally robust and exegetically rich preaching, is the only mechanism for the church’s survival in a secular age.
The question remains, what does preaching look like in the secular city?
The Shack is now one of the best-selling paperback books of all time, and its readers are enthusiastic. But the theology is not incidental to the story.
The only authentic Christian response to the challenge of secularization is faithful, clear, and informed expository preaching
On the very evening of the celebration of Christ’s birth, Christians are called to remember, in Christ’s name, the poor and the helpless, the cold and the hungry, the oppressed and the sick, the lonely and the unloved, the aged and the children, those who do not know Christ, “and them that mourn.”
"I think the honest answer is that I loved the fantasies and I loved the revolutionary illusions. I truly loved them.... I was one of those who was way out on the far left edge of accommodating to modernity. And I don’t know how but the Holy Spirit found me."
The Christian ministry is a terrible profession, but it is the greatest calling on earth.