Grace To You Audio Blog: Ecumenical Jihad

Grace To You Thursday: The Truth War (Interview with John MacArthur)

Fighting Five Articles of Interest

Dr. Mohler's Blog

Newsnote: Boys Wearing Skirts to School? What's Going On? by Al Mohler

Dr. Mohler examines the gender confusion among our youth which is another sad consequence of postmodernism.

Adrian Warnock

Knowledge Puffs Up by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Adrian posts a quote from Martyn Lloyd-Jones who explains the dangers of studying Scripture for mere intellectual pursuit.

Ligonier Blog

The Gospel Is for the Broken by Rod Rosenbladt

Dr. Rosenbladt talks about the sad cases of Christian "alumni".

The Thirsty Theologian

Ignorance Above Other Sins by William Gurnall

A quote from William Gurnall concerning sin.

Reformation Theology

Election v. Self Sufficiency by John Samson

Why a true understanding of the doctrine of election is vital for the Christian?

"FIGHTING MAD" or other articles of interest

Daily News Los Angeles

Evangelist Tony Alamo sentenced to 175 years in federal prison

In Texarkana Arkansas, Tony Alamo is sentenced to 175 years in federal prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex. Upon sentencing, U.S. District Judge Harold Barnes told Alamo, "Mr. Alamo, one day you will face a greater judge than me, may he have mercy on your soul".

Fighting Five Articles of Interest

Institute for Nouthetic Studies Blog

Imitation by Jay Adams

Jay gives practical principles on how we can be imitators of the Apostle Paul.

Pyromaniacs

Settled Certainty by Phil Johnson

Are Christians displaying arrogance when they claim personal assurance of salvation?

DeYoung the Restless and the Reformed

Prayerlessness is Unbelief by Kevin DeYoung

Excellent and convicting article by Kevin on prayer and what our lack of prayer reveals about our Christian walk.

Desiring God Blog

9 Ways to Know the Gospel of Christ is True by John Piper

The White Horse Inn Blog

From A Movement to a Church by Michael Horton

Are parachurch ministries replacing the church? Dr. Horton's first post in a series of articles dealing with this issue.

"FIGHTING MAD" or other articles of interest

Ligonier Blog

Asking the Most Important Question by R.C. Sproul

Dr. Sproul on the importance of Christians believing their assurance of salvation.

The Christian Post: Interview with John MacArthur on his new book-"The Jesus You Can't Ignore"

Evangelicals Challenged to Preach Bold Hard Truths by Lilian Kwon

In a climate where dogmatism is the new heresy, many evangelicals have backed away from bold preaching while "freely imbibing" the spirit of the postmodern age, says one well-known minister.

"It seems that zeal for the essential doctrines of biblical Christianity has become virtually as unacceptable among evangelicals and post-evangelicals as it always has been in the world at large," John MacArthur writes in his newly released book, The Jesus You Can't Ignore.

The evangelical movement used to be known for two nonnegotiable theological convictions – one of them being the absolute accuracy and authority of Scripture, and the other being Jesus Christ as the only way of salvation.

But today, evangelicalism has become an "amorphous monstrosity" where practically every idea is brought to the evangelical table for discussion, MacArthur says.

"As a result, today's evangelicals seem unable to put their finger on anything that makes them truly distinctive," he laments.

Before writing his book, MacArthur – pastor of the nondenominational megachurch Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif. – read through literature representing "postevangelical" points of view. What he found was a common theme in all the books that suggested Christians need to be less militant, less aggressive, less preachy and less sure of their own convictions in order to reach unbelieving people in a postmodern culture.

But that's not the way Jesus proclaimed the Gospel message, MacArthur points out.
A far cry from the methods employed by preachers today, Jesus preached with a bold, blunt, unvarnished directness that even his disciples had a hard time listening to, the evangelical author highlights.

"His style of preaching isn't likely to generate the kind of enthusiastic arm waving and feel-good atmosphere today's Christians typically like to see at their mass meetings and outdoor music festivals," he states.

The Jesus most people tend to be familiar with, however, is the meek and mild lamb whom many learned of as a child.

"Rather than go to the Bible to get the full picture of who Jesus is, people are very content with a benign, self-satisfying view of Jesus," MacArthur told The Christian Post.

And churches are marketing a Jesus consumers would less likely resist.

To "sell Him effectively," many churches are inventing the Jesus and the Gospel message people would like, MacArthur noted.

In his new book, the long-time minister surveys the entire public ministry of Christ and reintroduces readers to Jesus – the Jesus who never shied away from conflict, never softened His message to please genteel tastes, and never suppressed any truth to accommodate someone's artificial notion of dignity.
(Please click here to continue reading, Evangelicals Challenged to Preach Bold, Hard Truths)

Fighting Five Articles of Interest

Dr. Mohler's Blog

The Culture of Offendedness by Al Mohler

Dr. Mohler describes how Christians can deal with a post modern culture that has become more and more intolerant with the proclamation of the Gospel.

Between Two Worlds

Slow to Anger by Justin Taylor

Justin takes passages from Scripture to show God's mercy toward us because He is slow to anger.


Pyromaniacs

Can We Talk? by Phil Johnson

Phil Johnson on the postmodernists' emphasis of conversation and dialogue over truth.

Possessing the Treasure

False Teachers and True Contentment by Mike Ratliff

True contentment only comes from Christ and His Word.


Reformed Baptist Fellowship

Outta This World by Alan Dunn

What does a true disciple of Christ look like?