Richard Gilbert

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book (Rev. 22:18). Every time something big happens in the news (especially if it involves the Middle East) it seems a new set of books, reinterpreting […]

There is a growing trend among adherents of the Church Growth movement to treat the church as just another business. It should come as no surprise, then, that a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article discusses the latest developments of this trend, the megachurch. This trend is not an aberration based on misapplication of Church […]

“To be converted to God means to believe in Christ, to believe that He is our mediator and that we have eternal life through Him.” (W 52, 617). So said Luther in a sermon in 1534. The first misconception that Luther warns us about is the notion, so common in much of what passes for […]