Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

Tim Keller is the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in New York City, NY.  In 2017, he stepped down from his position as senior pastor in order to focus on mentoring the next ...

Four Branches April – 2019

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical   Exegetical Theology: Stay Close to This – The Near Demonstrative in Acts 13:15-39 The Spirit opens your mouth to declare the wonderful story of “Love divine, all love ...

Rewiring Your Preaching: How the Brain Processes Sermons

Richard H. Cox (M.D., Ph.D., D.Min.) is president emeritus of Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri, and teaches in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences as Duke University Medical School. The author ...

Four Branches March – 2019

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical Exegetical Theology: The Cross as Metonymy in 1 Corinthians 1:18 The Second Lesson for Lent 4 features a particularly potent use of metonymy. The entire section of 1 Corinthians ...

Preach the Word – March/April

Volume 22, Number 4 Apologetics in Preaching: Resurrection Apologetics I have to admit, to my great shame, that I had trouble preaching during the Easter season. Easter Sunday was great. Preaching on Doubting Thomas the ...

Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain

William Struthers is an associate professor of psychology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches courses on behavioral neuroscience, men and addictions, and ...

Four Branches February 2019

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical   Exegetical Theology: God's New Thing The Exodus from Egypt was a tremendous act of deliverance by God. In Isaiah 43:16-21 (Lent 5C), God reminds his people of this ...

Commentary on 1 and 2 Timothy

Commentary on 1 and 2 Timothy, by Johann Gerhard. Translated by Joshua J. Hayes.  Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2017. 231 pages. The Concordia Theological Seminary Master of Divinity Class of 2017 and Alternate Route ...