Todd Pruitt's Posts

Uncomfortable Grace

Sep 30, 2008

When you get a chance read Lost in the Middle by Paul Tripp.

In the parable of The Good Samaritan Jesus is offering a kind of quiet polemic against the prevailing notion of the day that your neighbor, those who were the proper objects of your charity were those who were within your own sphere of culture, ethnicity, and religion. As Jesus tells the parable he...

The Gospel and Deeds of Mercy

Todd Pruitt

Sep 30, 2008

Don Carson has a good article in the latest edition of Themelios . In many parts of the evangelical world, one hears a new debate—or, more precisely, new chapters in an old debate—regarding the precise place that "deeds of mercy" ought to have in Christian witness. I am not talking about the...

Taming the Tongue

Todd Pruitt

Sep 27, 2008

At the Desiring God National Conference Sinclair Ferguson presented a stiring and God-exalting challenge. It came in the form of resolutions drawn directly from the book of James. Read it. Love it. Live it. James 1:5 To ask God for wisdom to speak and with a single mind James 1:9-10 To boast only...

Dr. Michael Horton

Todd Pruitt

Sep 27, 2008

Take advantage of this great resource . One of the blessings of the internet is that it provides Christians with access to wonderful teaching that once was limited to seminary students. Michael Horton is a wonderful gift to the church. His books range from the academic to the pastoral. I believe...

Why are so many quitting church?

Todd Pruitt

Sep 27, 2008

A new book by Washington Times reporter Julia Duin examines the reasons behind why so many professing Christians are choosing to leave the church. The book Quiting Church promises to be an interesting and perhaps sobering study. Duin writes: There are paradoxes in this story, too. In recent decades...

The Spurgeon Fellowship Journal

Todd Pruitt

Sep 26, 2008

Check out this issue of The Spurgeon Fellowship Journal . Good Stuff! One article by Arturo Azurdia entitled "Is Methodology Neutral?" is particularly interesting (even important). He writes: Consider the nature of your calling, my brothers. The preacher brings to a fallen humanity the testimony of...