In the introduction to "Give Praise to God, A Vision for Reforming Worship," Philip Ryken describes how the late Dr. James Boice (who died in 2000, and in whose memory the book was written) was (rightfully) troubled by what he saw happening in the contemporary church. Ryken writes:"Given the priority that he placed on honoring God in our worship, Dr. Boice understandably w...

This is a transcription I did some time ago of excerpts from a conversation between James White and Thom Aschol. I felt that what James White shared below hit such a nerve with me. I could relate so well to going to seminary and then into ministry, wanting to do the will of God and to preach and teach, but being taught, directly and indirectly, that man's methodologies wer...

This is something I wrote back in 2006 and I just came across it today. Since writing this, my wife and I have had a chance to visit the Billy Graham museum and, honestly,I feel like the criticisms of the cow were a bit overblown. Nevertheless, the sentiment of what I shared here still stands. "We have become so performance oriented that it is hard to see how compromise...

The Dove Awards have always fascinated me- and not in a good way.They seem to run so counter to the Christian value of humility and self-forgetfulness as well as the fact that God's pleasure is to be thegoal of our worship and of all that we do to facilitate that worship- not man's praise. I'd love to talk with whoever came up with the idea and and try to understand their ...

In a message entitled "The Issue in the Church," J. Gresham Machen (preaching sometime before his death in 1937) said some things as relevant and important for us to hear as they were in his day: "The world of today is hoping for something new. Things that seemed to be new have proved to be old; the newness of modern inventions has been found not to touch the depths of li...

An excerpt rom a recent e-newsletter by James Kushiner, an editor of Touchstone Magazine: Much of the demise of Christianity in the West occurred during a period when Christians failed to notice, or if they did, failed to respond to the shallowness of what passed for Christian faith in the mid- and late- twentieth century. Though not all Christians failed to notice it. It...