“To recover the old, authentic, biblical gospel, and to bring our preaching and practice back into line with it, is perhaps our most pressing present need.” J. I. Packer wrote these words in his 1958 introductory essay for a reprint of John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. While Packer went …
Book Review: The Shaming of the Strong by Sarah Williams
God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. - 1 Corinthians 1:27 Thanks to my good friend, Ryan Boettcher, I was introduced to Sarah Williams via her moving book, The Shaming of the Strong. Williams is Associate Professor of Church History at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has held …
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Hudson Taylor on God’s Work
Here is a statement by Hudson Taylor that has been ringing through my mind in the last week when I read it in the book, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret. Taylor was a late 19th and early 20th century missionary in China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (now OMF). His goal was to move …
Bounds on Preaching and Prayer
I came across this quotation from E. M. Bounds when reading Richard Foster's book, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home. Bounds is one of our preeminent writers on prayer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, there is not always the same emphasis on prayer as a source of power for ministry that …
Jesus’ Subversive Revolution
I recently finished the book For All God's Worth by N. T. Wright. It is well worth a read if you are at all interested in the topic of worship and how our worship as Christians shapes - or should shape - our daily living. Near the end of the book, Wright talks about how …
Matthew Erickson 