“. . .if we want to defeat the extremism, we have got to defeat its ideas and we have got to address the completely false sense of grievance against the West.”
Tony Blair lays down the law to Muslims on extremists in their midst.
Cross-Centered Relevance: “Jesus Christ and him crucified’ was, for Paul, the ultimate criterion for what we today call ‘relevance.”
C. J. Mahaney quotes Ray Ortlund Jr. and encourages us to “check out Ray’s theologically informed discernment on what it means to be relevant in ministry”, written nine years ago!
“If my quest to be relevant takes me down a road of catering to the demands of people to “get something meaningful to me” from every sermon, then I may actually compromise the text.”
Do we kiss the idol of “This must make me feel good and this must be helpful to me to have any meaning”? This idol rules at times — in seeking music or sermons that are relevant, the final measure of relevance is “does it make me feel closer to God?”
“Not everyone who calls me Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven . . .”
A blistering sermon preached by Paul Washer to 5,000 at an SBC Youth Rally on the text Matthew 7:13-27. It was directed at Americans in particular, but is appropriate for all who call themselves Christian. HT Dan Edelen.










