Without the revelation of Scripture, we’d have a very limited, if not erroneous, concept of the Lord. God has given us His written Word for the following reasons: Help for every circumstance of life is found within the Scriptures. He gives us amazing promises and has the infinite power to fulfill them. From beginning to end, the Lord demonstrates His love and concern for His people. When trouble strikes, we have a variety of places to turn for help-but our first option should always be the Bible.Īfter all, it’s no ordinary book it is the unfolding revelation of almighty God. Just Google them or look for their sermons on YouTube.SUPPORTING SCRIPTURES: Isaiah 40:8 | John 3:3 | John 3:16 | Romans 3:23 | Romans 6:23 | Romans 10:9 | Ephesians 2:8-9 | Hebrews 9:27 (If you’re not familiar with any of the names there, I’d recommend starting with John MacArthur, Steve Lawson, Voddie Baucham, Josh Buice, or Gabriel Hughes. It will help you to develop an “ear” for what good, biblical preaching should sound like so that when you run across bad preaching, you’ll be able to quickly tell that it’s bad. I would also suggest you listen to some great preaching from the men under the “Recommended Bible Teachers” tab in the blue menu bar at the top of this page. Here is a resource I hope you’ll find helpful as you further research him. I suspect he also teaches false doctrine as I’ve never run across a pastor or teacher who violates Scripture in either/both of these areas who doesn’t also teach false doctrine. All of these things – violating Scripture by allowing women to preach/pastor, and yoking with false teachers – alone are enough to biblically (1 Timothy 3/Titus 1) disqualify him as a pastor, regardless of the content of his teaching/preaching.

He apparently has a close relationship with Joel Osteen, and he allows his wife to serve as co-“pastor”. The first time I heard about Michael was when he allowed Beth Moore to preach the Sunday sermon at his church. I know very little about Michael Todd, and I haven’t listened to any of his sermons, but from what little I do know, he’s doing some unbiblical things and no Christian should be following him (whether or not you choose to use the label of “false teacher” for him). Let’s set the label of “false teacher” aside for a moment. However, there are still some solid bloggers at TGC, such as Kevin DeYoung, whom I recommend and appreciate. I’m not happy with the direction The Gospel Coalition has taken over the last few years, especially with the racial and political views expressed by Thabiti Anyabwile a couple of years ago, the constant comparisons between movies and the Bible, and some of the social justice positions TGC writers have espoused. I’ve linked to a couple of his theological articles here on the blog. I follow DA Carson even less closely than Tim Keller, but my impression of him is that he has it more together, theologically, than Tim Keller does, despite the fact that he also has continuationist leanings. Also, I read his tweets from time to time, and some of them have a nearly mystical quality to them. However, I do not proactively recommend him due to his continuationist leanings, his views on theistic evolution, and things like the incident at his church a while back where he had male ballet dancers perform a “praise dance” during the worship service.

Tim Keller is not someone I follow closely, but my understanding is that he is generally doctrinally sound on the gospel.

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