This review was originally published in the Fall, 2009, Midwestern Journal of Theology. Why Johnny Can’t Preach. By T. David Gordon. New Jersey: P&R Publishing, 2009, 108 pp., $9.99 on Amazon. Dr. Gordon was diagnosed with stage III cancer. Uncertain of how long he had left to live, he wrote what he thought could be …
Category Archives: Worship
We can love loving God more than we actually love God
Here is an irony: We can love arguing for God while neglecting a love of God. We can love thinking about God more than loving God himself. We can love the emotion of worship at the cost of loving God. We can love perfected theology more than we care for the Creator. We can love …
Suffering Exists Because Worship Doesn’t
Suffering exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not suffering, because God is ultimate, not our pain. When this present evil age is over, and the resurrected in Christ inherit the restored creation, their suffering will end. But worship abides forever. John Piper, in his book, Let the Nations be Glad, says the same thing …
Costly Worship
If meeting with Christians for regular Biblical worship meant you might possibly get persecuted and killed (not certainly, but possibly), would you join in such worship? If worship meant persecution, would you still gather with God’s people to praise Jesus?
Nativity Statues of Jesus
Christ our King is in enthroned in Heaven. Jesus is God. Though we cannot see him, he reigns. If we make little carved statues of him, is that like making wooden idols? What does the nativity have to do with this commandment from Exodus 20:4: You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or …
Remove the bands, and many churches will empty
Most worship is false precisely because it is relevant.
How a church can have a modern reformation and be truly emergent
Preach and Enjoy Christ. Really. Every sermon. Stop preaching all the other stuff. And remove any and all leadership that does not see why this ought to be. Done. Will you see success? This is wonderful and liberating success! Anything less is pretend church or invented happiness. And everything less is boring!
Images of God used in Worship
Do the following words have any relationship to using pictures of Jesus in churches? Exodus 20:4-5. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to …
Downloadable Truth… Is it Healthy?
The preaching of Jesus is a chief treasure of all real churches (Acts 5:42; Rom 1:15; Eph 4:11; 1 Cor 1:17; 1 Cor 1:21; 1 Cor 9:18; 1 Cor 15:2; 2 Tim 4:2; Titus 1:3; 1 Peter 1:25; etc.). Jesus wants a Church where he is preached faithfully, and he wants his people gathered to …