Route 2 is one of Michigan’s most scenic highways. It runs west of St. Ignace in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula along the north shore of Lake Michigan. The scenery is broken periodically when the stunning, vast blue of the great freshwater ocean bursts into view south of the highway.
Travis Brown would be 24 this summer, but the summer of his twelfth year his parents took him on a vacation in the Upper Peninsula and just off scenic Route 2 in on the north edge of Lake Michigan, within site of …

John MacArthur’s Pastor’s Conference is being broadcast live. MacArthur is willing to say some powerful and courageous things few others are willing to say. If you get a chance this is a valuable opportunity to listen in on a great conference. If you can, get a copy of John MacArthur’s opening message.

Here are some thoughts I have written after reading “If Grace is True” and “If God is Love” by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland.
I think Phillip Gulley has a kind heart and a clouded mind. Philip Gulley is a nice guy with a great sense of humor who has written some wonderful books-but he stopped. He didn’t stop writing well and he didn’t stop getting books published. While the quality of his writing as continued, perhaps even improved, his theology has become corrupted in dangerous …

Have you seen the Nooma videos? They are hip, but are they helpful? They are cool, but are they correct? They are trendy, but are they true?
Shepherds at heart are always on the alert for danger and there is nothing as dangerous as spiritual danger. The virgin birth matters. The authority of Scripture matters. A right understanding of the atonement matters. A clear undersatnding and presentation of the Gospel matters. Truth matters. Truth must trump style. For those of you who have an interest in truth and discernment here are …

Do you ever feel the pressure the make sure your church is “worldly” so people will be attracted to it? If not I wonder what planet you live on. The pressure is on to make the church into an ecclesiastical version of the David Letterman Show or worse. This is epidemic in our time but it is not something new. Spurgeon felt the pressure to make the church “worldly” to make it effective in his day. Phil Johnson blogged an interesting quote on the subject recently.
John MacArthur has written powerfully …