Dan Greenfield

  • First Peter

    The modern Church is in grave danger of forgetting the distinctiveness of her gospel and the glorious isolation of her position…The first readers of the Epistle were subject to a similar danger, though it arose from a somewhat different cause. Today we are no longer subject to persecution; but the danger is fundamentally the same. Read more

  • Separatism, Individualism, Culture, and…Clothes?

    Erik Wesner at Amish America pointed my attention to yet another resource on the Amish and other Anabaptist groups (there’s been a lot published lately). This one is by renowned Anabaptist scholar Donald Kraybill,  Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites. Erik’s post includes a brief interview with Kraybill, and he asked a great Read more

  • November 11, 2010

    Started the day reading Psalm 143. Noted how the psalmist responds to difficult, overwhelming, heart-rending experiences as related in vv. 3-4— I will meditate on the days of old; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands. I stretch out my hands to You; my soul longs for you, Read more

  • What to Preach

    One should preach his beliefs, not his doubts. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 62. Read more

  • Ministry Notoriety

    Notoriety always comes to the preacher who betrays his Lord or his gospel (60). –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 60. Read more

  • Sincerity in Ministry

    (Commenting on 2 Cor 4:2) The temptation was often yielded to then as now, to put the best apples on top of the barrel, the best strawberries on top of the basket. The Judaizers made a plausible plea and show. Paul, in contrast, grounds his confidence on two reasons. One is his sincerity. His berries Read more

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