In 1991, I had my own "Luther Romans 1:17" moment while sitting alone in a pew on a Wednesday night listening to a British missionary explain the true meaning of justification by faith. How I had gone 23 years growing up in Baptist churches (13 of those as a believer) without having it taught to me I can't fathom. But there I sat, tears rolling down my cheeks, finally reco...

In the Washington Post (Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006) article,Did the Three Kings Bear Gift Receipts?, Kevin Hassett examines gift giving from an economist's point of view. He discovers that an economist would say that gift giving is a completely inefficient way of celebrating Christmas. They would claim that a person knows what they want better than you do, and they would point...

A few years ago, Mark Dever conducted an interview with J.I.Packer in which he discusses the introduction he wrote to John Owen's book "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ." You can find the full interview atwww.9marks.org. In it they discuss true preaching of the Gospel and the problem of false conversions when the full Gospel is not preached. I had transcribed a ...