The new 40th anniversary edition of Preaching and Preachers contains essays from several contemporary preachers, including a piece from Ligon Duncan entitled “Some Things to Look For and Wrestle With.” Zondervan has given me permission to reprint that essay below. Ligon’s comments serve as a good introduction to the book and are full of wisdom [...]
Author Archives: Kevin DeYoung
Will Ferrell Introduces Chicago Bulls
February 9, 2012 – 8:50 am
I’ve been a Bulls fan my whole life and this is very funny.
Preaching and Preachers
February 9, 2012 – 6:01 am
In the spring of 1969, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones gave a series of lectures at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia that explored the nature of preaching and made a stirring defense for the centrality of preaching. These lectures were published in March 1972 as Preaching and Preachers. This fortieth anniversary edition is being released both to [...]
American Technopoly
February 8, 2012 – 6:20 am
My attitude toward technology is pretty simple. Like almost anything else humans create, technology can be a blessing or a curse. Some Christians harbor an immediate suspicion toward technology, assuming that anything new must be bad, especially new things they don’t understand. But many others are too quick to accept technology as an unmitigated good [...]
10 Reasons to Believe in a Historical Adam
February 7, 2012 – 5:23 am
In recent years, several self-proclaimed evangelicals, or those associated with evangelical institutions, have called into question the historicity of Adam and Eve. It is said that because of genomic research we can no longer believe in a first man called Adam from whom the entire human race has descended. I’ll point to some books at [...]
Monday Morning Humor
February 6, 2012 – 12:15 am
Some good car commercials from the Super Bowl. I love this one for the Twinkies. This extended cut of Jerry Seinfeld with the omelet guy is better than the original commercial.
When Commentaries Don’t Inspire
February 4, 2012 – 5:55 am
Last Sunday I preached on Ezra 2, which is no one’s favorite chapter in the Bible. It’s a long list of the exiles who returned from Babylon. But I’m preaching through Ezra, so I read the second chapter and preached from it. I admit there were times I stared at the text and prayed, “Lord [...]
Is Planned Parenthood Really Not About Abortion?
February 3, 2012 – 5:52 am
The Susan G. Komen Foundation, the nation’s largest breast cancer charity, has cut its funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions. The move by Komen has enraged pro-abortion advocates and sparked a renewed debate about what Planned Parenthood actually does. Setting aside the undercover operations and insider testimonies which have revealed that [...]
T4G Panels
February 2, 2012 – 10:13 am
I like the new Brady Bunch format for these T4G video shoots. Also, the new approach to the panels should be great. Panels: The New T4G Format from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.
A Needed Reminder
February 2, 2012 – 5:49 am
Richard Swenson: The best thing to remember about time-saving technologies is that they don’t. Instead, they consume, compress, and devour time. All the countries with the most time-saving technologies are the most stressed-out countries–an assertion that is easy to prove. One Christian executive reports that he receives 1800 e-mails each day, while a Pentagon leader [...]
