A few weeks back I preached a sermon from Nehemiah 8 entitled “Back To The Word.” A video of it is now available to download. My notes and an mp3 are also available, and you can subscribe to our vodcast or podcast to get the rest of the series. A new sermon from the series is now available for online streaming. I have been encouraged to hear that a number of those who heard have since been listening to or... Read more
Okay . . . I know how it is. Some of you are still resisting Facebook’s steady march towards assimilating the world’s entire population. I want to try to convince you otherwise! Recently someone I don’t know all that well asked me a question on Facebook about the gospel. Perhaps this means I should list “evangelism” as the ninth reason to use Facebook, which should actually rate it of greater importance than any of those I have given below. So... Read more
This is the third part in my short series on multiculturalism. The first two in the series can be found here: Multiculturalism—You Are What You Eat? Does Multiculturalism Mean I Have To Eat Blood? When you mix with a number of different nationalities, you begin to realize that cultural differences are more complicated than you appreciated. They can also extend to quite surprising areas of life. One such area is that of whether or not it’s a good idea to... Read more
Many Christians simplistically believe that when we die we will “go to heaven to be with Jesus forever.” The truth is that 1 Corinthians 15 and other Scriptures make clear that we will one day be reunited with our bodies. From Revelation 21 it is clear that the heavenly city will descend from the skies and remain on earth. God will dwell with us on the new earth. So it would almost seem that heaven itself will invade earth, and... Read more
“Have I been born again?” is not a question to be answered hastily. In John Piper’s new book, Finally Alive, expect to be challenged. Piper strips away our complacency, arguing that many people falsely believe they are Christians. He begins by arguing that many who claim to be “born again” today are actually not, and that statistics demonstrating that so-called born again Christians are morally indistinguishable from unbelievers only demonstrate that many who think they have been regenerated actually are... Read more
On Friday I shared a quote about why Piper doesn’t own a TV. I can’t find any evidence to suggest that the Doctor also abstained from this modern form of entertainemnt. There are multiple references to the things “we watch on televion” in his sermons. However, Martyn Lloyd-Jones had serious reservations about TV, as this quote demonstrates. I wonder if the Internet is less mind-numbing? I suspect that if you read certain parts of the Net and engage with it,... Read more
As I have mentioned previously, there is now a video sermon podcast available of preaching from Jubilee Church London. We are also streaming video sermons live at higher quality. The guys are working to get our Nehemiah series online, and one of the most recent sermons made available is my sermon entitled “Building for the Glory of God.” You can download the video via the vodcast or by right-clicking on this download link. Read more
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I came across this old quote from Dr. Piper about TV. I wonder what could also be said about the things reading blogs does to people today? Certainly some of these observations apply equally. Perhaps we could add to this list becoming cynical and argumentative. Having said that, if God is gracious to us, I think those of us who are bloggers do realize at some point the folly of our ways and find that as we blog more and... Read more
Terry Virgo has been blogging a series entitled Remember the Poor. He begins by talking about the extraordinary sense of togetherness that was experienced by the early church. I suppose I would characterize it as a sense of “brothers in arms.” There was a missional purpose that was accompanied by a relational togetherness. Sadly, we often miss one or the other of these aspects in our churches, or even both of them. The family of the church is meant to... Read more
Christmas seems like it’s just around the corner. In these times of financial pressure, surely we all feel the need to make good choices in our gifts this year and not be wasteful. A new Bible for a loved one (or dare I say for yourself?) is certainly an excellent investment. But what Bible? And what format? In this post I will look at a few examples, some of which I can recommend. At the top of my list would... Read more
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