A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence: The relentless expository passion of John F. MacArthur, Jr., 1939-2025

He was the greatest expositor of his times. One of the ironies of John MacArthur is that, to the end, he insisted that any God-called preacher of the ...

August 14, 2025

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We Hold These Truths: Defending Liberty in a Perilous Age

It was almost one hundred years ago, in the aftermath of the Great War, the war that did not end all wars, that William Butler Yeats sounded the warning in his famous poem, “The Second Coming:” Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon ca ...

May 9, 2018

Life in Four Stages – The Wonder of Childhood

This article contains an excerpt from the first chapter of my new e-book, Life in Four Stages. Click here to download the entire book for free.  Chapter 1 - The Wonder of Childhood I will take any excuse to talk about my grandsons, Benjamin and ...

May 6, 2018

Keeping the Evangel in Evangelism: Why Evangelicalism Can’t Abandon the Old, Old Story

The Great Commission stands at the center of Christianity as the command of the risen Lord Jesus Christ for his church to proclaim the name of God in the world for the sake of all nations and God’s glory among them. The church fulfills the commission ...

April 19, 2018

The Empty Tomb and the Resurrected Lord

The pattern of the Christian year is an exercise of the Church’s discipline. The annual celebrations of Christmas and Resurrection Day force the Church to ponder again the truths of Christ’s incarnation and resurrection. Christians understand that ...

March 31, 2018

The Preacher: Billy Graham and American Evangelicalism

Billy Graham died yesterday at the age of 99. Graham was one of the titanic figures of American evangelicalism and his life spanned some of the interesting and tumultuous years of world history. We cannot even speak about 20th-century evangelicalism ...

February 22, 2018

All Other Ground is Sinking Sand: A Portrait of Theological Disaster

Theological disaster almost never strikes out of the blue. Trouble builds and disaster is somehow averted again and again, but anyone with eyes to see knows the time is running out. Time has run out for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The CBF ...

February 12, 2018

The Prayer that Turns the World Upside Down

This article is an excerpt from my new book, The Prayer that Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution, which releases today. We long for revolution. Something within us cries out that the world is horribly broke ...

January 23, 2018

Moralism is Not the Gospel (But Many Christians Think It Is)

One of the most amazing statements by the Apostle Paul is his indictment of the Galatian Christians for abandoning the Gospel. “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel,” Paul dec ...

January 12, 2018

Christmas Full of Grace and Truth: Big Theological Issues Show Up in New Report

Major media across the country have given a great deal of attention to a recent research report that comes from the Pew Research Center. The headline from the Pew website is this, “Americans Say Religious Aspects of Christmas Are Declining in Publ ...

December 23, 2017