Today I have a post on the Desiring God Blog celebrating the birthday, the Bible, and the God of Charles Spurgeon.

Here is the link to his letter to the church
Here is the video of him sharing with the church about his leave:

I thank God for him.  Yes, as an apprentice/student in his seminary I am going to greatly miss his instruction and leadership over the coming 8 months.  However, he is teaching me something through [...]

Dr. Jason Meyer was officially announced the first New Testament Professor at BCS, where I attend Seminary (read about him here).  I eagerly anticipate his arrival!  He is currently in Ethiopia teaching at an Evangelical Seminary, training pastors.  His new book, The End of The Law, is available for perusal through Google Books.

“If you’re a sports fan, and I am, that’s the holiest day of the year,” he wrote. “It’s not a day to discuss abortion. For it, against it, I don’t care what you are. On Super Sunday, I don’t care what I am. Feb. 7 is simply not the day to have that discussion.”
- Gregg [...]

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(HT: Justin Taylor)

“I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: “All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in [...]

“If there is a problem today with privatistic religion, the worst form of it is not with pietistic evangelicals who don’t care about block clubs and social justice and structural sin.  The worst form is with evangelicals who think they are publicly- and socially-minded when they have no passion for millions of perishing people without [...]

“Americans, as a whole (and evangelicals are little different in this), are not given to thinking much… This is especially true about doctrine.  We are pragmatic.  We demand quick solutions.  We define success in measurable quantities.  We have little patience with doctrinal precision.  And we pastors who are infected with the pragmatic virus tend to [...]

In a new post on the Mars Hill Blog, Mark Driscoll shares after 14 years of pastoring – the things he would do differently if he was to plant his church over again.
1.  He would seek more training and mentorship before planting a church.
2.  He would be more bold in raising financial support rather than overwork [...]