Have you checked out the new blog?

Just a reminder that my blog has moved to our newly designed Eternal Perspective Ministries website, at www.epm.org/blog. You can pick up the RSS feed at www.epm.org/feeds/blog/.

Please come join us at our beautiful new location. We don’t want to lose you!



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We're Moving

My blog will be moving today, so this is officially my last post on blogger. Now all my blog posts will be at http://www.epm.org/blog/. With the blog on the Eternal Perspective Ministries website, the blogging process will be a lot smoother for me and reading and commenting more accessible and attractively presented for you.

Thank you to readers and followers of my blog. I hope you’ll come with me on the move to the new blog page, where you can subscribe to the new blog feed, make comments, and rate content.

It’s not just the blog that’s changing. The whole website has gotten an overhaul (thanks to 5Q Communications, who did a wonderful job). The newly designed, much improved site launches this morning. (The website may be temporarily unavailable during the transition).

And as for the new search engine—which I’ve been experimenting with—it’s enough to make a grown man cry. I no longer have to leave our site to use Google to find what’s on our site. I’m excited!

Come check it out and if you would like to comment, we’d love to get your feedback. http://www.epm.org/



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Protecting Our Children in a Modern Corinth

I remember speaking at a Bible college as a visiting lecturer in the early 1980s. During one week of teaching, I had three different female students approach me and confess that they each were having an affair with a youth pastor or senior pastor in their church. It was like cold water thrown in my face. I think the Lord strategically brought those contacts into my life to help me realize I needed to address this issue.

Now that was in the 1980s, when we didn’t yet have the internet. We were in the very early days of renting videos. At that point, I started comparing our culture to ancient Corinth, where you could go out into the streets and supposedly find a thousand priestesses of Aphrodite—prostitutes who would throw themselves at men passing by. Today, with TVs, VCRs, DVDs, especially the internet, and now even cell phones, the immediacy and the amassing of pornography is greater than anything we could have imagined.

A couple weeks ago on a Saturday night, I spoke on the topic of sexual purity at my home church. The following clip from that message is one of the less popular statements I’ve made on this topic, but one that I believe is very important for parents to heed. The second clip is from the next Sunday and contains some follow up thoughts.











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Note from Eternal Persepective Ministries: Here are some resources for sexual purity including Randy's book The Purity Principle.

How We Overcome

Recently Of First Importance posted a citation from D. A. Carson, one of my favorite theologians and writers. If you’re not familiar with Carson, I highly recommend his works.

Contemplate these biblical and powerful words:

“How dare you approach the mercy-seat of God on the basis of what kind of day you had, as if that were the basis for our entrance into the presence of the sovereign and holy God? No wonder we cannot beat the Devil. This is works theology. It has nothing to do with grace and the exclusive sufficiency of Christ. Nothing.

Do you not understand that we overcome the accuser on the ground of the blood of Christ? Nothing more, nothing less. That is how we win. It is the only way we win. This is the only ground of our acceptance before God. If you drift far from the cross, you are done. You are defeated.

We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.”

—D.A. Carson, Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 103



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