To Whom Shall We Go?

I love how Carl Trueman writes and thinks. I find him both helpfully provocative and solidly biblical in his writing. The provocative side of his writing often broaches topics that really need to be addressed, yet often go either neglected or ignored, largely because they are not all that pleasant to think about. In a new post at the Reformation 21 blog , he is at it again. Trueman points out some Roman Catholic religious practices that Protestants would scorn, and shows that there is a conceptual similarity to some evangelical practices that should receive equal scorn. Here is one example: What I do now believe, however, is that evangelicalism has its own set of fetishes which are also superstitious and just as potentially harmful. Evangelicals too imbue objects with a power which they do not possess. Celebrity conference speakers would be one such category. Few conference speakers are actually any better than many unknown men who faithfully fill pulpits in unknown churches week ...

I definitely want to listen to these talks from Don Carson: "Building the Church with the Gospel"

Have you lost your grip on "justification by faith alone apart from any works of our own"? Thabiti suggests that we have done this when we pile guilt on ourselves for the lack of prayer in our lives. Wow. Check it out.