Network Archives - Theology Mix

Chris Dunn is a specialist in Christian Education, and in today’s episode he discusses the state of modern Christian Education in America – what it looks like, where it’s going, and what options are open to parents. Chris has been the youth pastor of several churches, Director of Discipleship, and has taught in secondary education for nearly a decade. He holds an M.A. in Biblical Studies and is currently finishing a PhD in Leadership specializing in Christian higher education. Listen […]

“Thou art all fair, my love.” -Song of Solomon 4:7 The Lord’s admiration of his Church is very wonderful, and his description of her beauty is very glowing. She is not merely fair, but “all fair.” He views her in himself, washed in his sin-atoning blood and clothed in his meritorious righteousness, and he considers her to be full of comeliness and beauty. No wonder that such is the case, since it is but his own perfect excellency that he […]

“Thou hast made summer and winter.” -Psalm 74:17 My soul begin this wintry month with thy God. The cold snows and the piercing winds all remind thee that he keeps his covenant with day and night, and tend to assure thee that he will also keep that glorious covenant which he has made with thee in the person of Christ Jesus. He who is true to his Word in the revolutions of the seasons of this poor sin-polluted world, will […]

Jill Richardson believes in community and in creating fresh ways of reaching the next generation with the Gospel of Jesus. Jill was awarded a B.A. from Washington University, an M.Div. from Bethel Seminary, and is currently working on her Doctor of Ministry at Gordon Conwell Seminary. Her research is in the area of Church Leadership in a changing context. She is the Pastor of Real Hope Community Church in suburban, Chicago, and in this episode of The Walk with John […]

“The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.” -Lamentations 3:24 It is not “The Lord is partly my portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but he himself makes up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not his grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. He has chosen us for his portion, and we have chosen […]

“Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.” –Psalm 68:28 It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to strengthen that which he has wrought in us. It is because of their neglect in this, that many Christians may blame themselves for those trials and afflictions of spirit […]

“The Lord’s portion is his people.” –Deuteronomy 32:9 How are they his? By his own sovereign choice. He chose them, and set his love upon them. This he did altogether apart from any goodness in them at the time, or any goodness which he foresaw in them. He had mercy on whom he would have […]

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.” –Genesis 29:26 We do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, but we scruple not to learn from the custom which he quoted as his excuse. There are some things which must be taken in order, and if we would win the second we must secure the first. The second may be the more lovely in our eyes, but the rule of […]

“I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham.” –Zephaniah 1:5 Such persons thought themselves safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah, and bowed at the same time to Malcham. But duplicity is abominable with God, and hypocrisy his soul hateth. The idolater who distinctly gives himself to his false god, has one sin less than he who brings his polluted and detestable sacrifice […]

“Men ought always to pray.” –Luke 18:1 If men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more Christian men. Jesus has sent his church into the world on the same errand upon which he himself came, and this mission includes intercession. What if I say that the church is the world’s priest? Creation is dumb, but the church is to find a mouth for it. It is the church’s high privilege to pray with acceptance. The door of […]