As a believer living in the West, I’m constantly reminded of the need to exercise discernment, especially when it comes to matters such as claims of spiritual gifts and the activity of the Holy Spirit. I thought today I would go to one of my favorite works by Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Joy Unspeakable. Directly before this quote, the Doctor points out that in all ages there are two main dangers confronting Christians when they need to evaluate claims regarding the... Read more
In this post on Ian Jukes’s blog, my friend—who I last saw when we had afternoon tea at Together On A Mission— is coming back to the UK. He will be taking on the leadership of King’s Way Church, Exmouth, a Newfrontiers church. Some of my readers will know Ian, who I admire for following the call of God on his life, together with his lovely wife, wherever it takes him. He is also the tech guru that hosts my... Read more
The Newfrontiers Youth Conference, New Day has posted its audio sermons online for free. Lots of great things happened during the week from what I heard, so the messages are no doubt well worth a listen. Also, a great introduction to the values of this group of churches can be found in the audio from one of the recent Newfrontiers USA conferences. Read more
Spurgeon’s book, The Soul Winner, is the kind of book you really need to read several times over the course of your life. I decided to dip into it once more over the summer, and read just the first chapter. It’s a book I have recommended previously. I found the following quote which is interesting. He is speaking about how church growth statistics are indicative of something. I wonder how many Spurgeon lovers today would agree with his assessment of... Read more
On the 24th of August, I preached a sermon at Jubilee during our summer series on some famous psalms. I took Psalm 121, which served as a starting point for me to share some of the most important planks of my personal doctrinal framework—a framework that has sustained me through hard times. As blogging around here at least begins to return to normal—if there is such a thing at adrianwarnock.com—I thought I’d share both the audio to download and a... Read more
Lex is a good friend of mine and is well-known in Newfrontiers circles as a biblically sound and enthusiastic evangelist who has recently started posting very helpful notes on Facebook. I have his permission to reproduce the following Review of Positioning Yourself to Receive Healing by Doug Jones in its entirety here. If you like it, then feel free to deluge him with Facebook messages telling him how much you want to read a blog by him since, for me,... Read more
Yesterday, at two different times during the day, I was confronted with the idea of God granting success to people. The first time occurred while I was reading the story of David and Jonathan where, in one chapter, the idea is repeated several times. 1 Samuel 18:5 — And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people... Read more
A couple of weeks back I catalogued what Mark Driscoll has been up to since Brighton. In a brief pause between preaching trips, we can now also read what Terry Virgo has been doing. I suspect you will get exhausted just reading it. The best line in the whole article comes when Terry explains his plans to take a Mediterranean cruise to celebrate forty years of marriage to Wendy. You can see that his enthusiasm for this wonderful woman hasn’t... Read more
We come today to the end of this recap of the posts that have been most popular with readers during the first half of 2008. This was assessed from the 1st of January to the 31st July on the basis of number of visitors to the pages. I hope you have enjoyed reading some of these older posts while I have been enjoying more time with my family. Thanks for bearing with me as I took this blogging break. I... Read more
Number 4 in the list of most read posts this year so far is a post linking to a number of sermons by C. J. Mahaney, as well as my interview with him. If you missed it, do also check out his sermon on People God Killed. Number 3 is a post summarizing a series from back in 2005—my interview with the ESV Bible translators, which seemed to launch my blog as a place where Christian leaders would agree to... Read more
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