Friday, February 6, 2009 • 9:27 am
Dr. Albert Mohler has some excellent points of advice for safeguarding the social networking experience:
1. Never allow social networking to replace or rival personal contact and communication. God made us to be social creatures that crave community. We cannot permit ourselves to substitute social networking for the harder work of building and maintaining personal relationships that are face to face.
2. Set clear parameters for the time devoted to social networking. These services can be seductive and time consuming. Social networking (and the Internet in general) can become obsessive and destructive of other relationships and higher priorities for the Christian.
3. Never write or post anything on a social networking site that you would not want the world to see, or anything that would compromise your Christian witness. There are plenty of young people (perhaps older persons now, too) who are ruining future job prospects and opportunities by social networking misbehavior. The cost to Christian witness is often far greater.
4. Never allow children and teenagers to have independent social networking access (or Internet access, for that matter). Parents should monitor, manage, supervise, and control the Internet access of their children and teens. Watch what your child posts and what their friends post.
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Filed under: Albert Mohler, Cultural Issues
Friday, December 19, 2008 • 3:22 pm
The Top 10 Preachers of 2007 is probably the most visited post on this blog. I have found that amazing but at the same time I am convinced that these great men of God have a wide impact in their pulpit ministry.
It is that time of year to post the Top 10 Preachers of 2008. Last year I included preachers that are dead and simply made an impact upon me in their writings. I will include the dead preachers at the end of this list as Honorable Mentions.
These men of God have pointed me to the cross of Christ and the glory of God in 2008 by explaining God’s Word. Thank you to all who made the list. If these men have impacted you in some way in 2008 please drop me a line.
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Filed under: Albert Mohler, John MacArthur, John Piper, Preaching, R.C. Sproul, Sinclair Ferguson
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 • 10:10 am
Yesterday Dr. Albert Mohler posted a very helpful article on How to Use a Study Bible. I have printed the whole article below:
One of the most memorable purchases I made as a teenager was The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible in its original King James Version edition, complete with blue leather cover. I still have it, of course, though it now finds itself surrounded by a host of other Bibles on the shelf nearest to my desk. That study Bible opened the Word of God to me in a whole new way, helping me to make connections in the text and to see how subjects and themes run throughout the Bible.
That was my introduction to a study Bible. The chain-reference notes in that Bible took me throughout the Scriptures, reading text alongside text. I recognized this as a great improvement on Bibles that contained only a minimal index and a few maps in the back.
Today, there are several significant study Bibles, ranging from the most minimal, offering only cross-references, to others that offer the equivalent of several hundred pages of supplemental helps.
How should a study Bible be used?
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Filed under: Albert Mohler, Bible, Bible Study
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 • 9:39 am
There is much talk today about meditation. Bookstore shelves are filled to capacity with books on how to channel the mind in an empty promise to attain peace and tranquility through meditation. Seeking the inner-self, finding ones-self, lifting our conscience to a higher plain; these are all used in today’s language in regard to meditation.
Dr. Albert Mohler has written an interesting article on the subject of medication entitled, “The Empty Promise of Meditation.” He writes of David:
In Psalm 119, David writes, “Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.” [Psalm 119:97] David’s meditation did not revolve around David, nor did it involve David trying to empty his mind into silence. He desperately wanted to hear from God, and he knew he would hear directly from God in the law. He studied the Scriptures in order to cleanse his mind of wrong thoughts and have them replaced with right thoughts and patterns of thinking.
Just as David had a deep desire to hear from God, it is imperative for Christians to meditate, but not in some sub-spiritual exercise that includes folded legs, candles lit, and soft humming but with a sincere desire to hear from God. Christians are commanded to meditate on God’s Word. In my reading this morning a verse from the Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Albert Mohler, Devotional, God, Holiness, The Christian Life
Friday, September 26, 2008 • 5:16 am
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From Isaiah 53 John Piper reminds us that it is God who brings about the suffering and death of Christ. In this moving and stirring post entitled, God’s Delight in the Son He Strikes Piper, in his usual amazing way, brings us face to face with the text of Scripture and the truth of the wrath of God vindicated on His own Son.
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You can now take online seminary level courses with some of the greatest theologians and biblical scholars of today at Biblical Training. This is an excellent resource for the pastor or laymen who can’t make it to seminary.
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Justin Taylor gives a brief description of some of today’s Favorite Children’s Bibles. This would be an excellent article to give to the parents in your congregation via a bulletin insert.
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Dr. Albert Mohler must be in the publishing mood. Four of Dr. Mohler’s books have been published this year and I encourage everyone to read them all.
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Tony Renike reviews The Complete Works of Thomas Manton. Puritan divine Thomas Manton was first and foremost an expositor of Scripture. 20 of the 22 volumes of his work are filled with expositions of Scripture. This complete works collection is for anyone dedicated to the same.
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I pray you have a wonderful weekend. I leave you with an excerpt from a letter by Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847):
Christian sanctification is boundless, and it is our duty to press forward; and when one looks to himself and feels his woeful deficiencies in the mildness, the patience, the charity, the holiness of the Gospel, he must perceive how much he has yet to aspire after. We should at the same time never forget in what way the above virtues are formed and have their increase in the soul: they are the fruits of the Spirit, Gal. v. 22 and as the Savior is the dispenser of the Spirit – as it is through faith in Him that the Spirit is given – as without Him we can do nothing – hence the necessity of laying all upon this foundation, of a vital union with Jesus Christ by faith, that He may be our sanctification as well as our redemption.
Filed under: Albert Mohler, Bible, Book Recommendations, Books, Links, Puritans
