Pulpit Magazine

(By Nathan Williams)
We begin this week’s edition of Pulpit Picks with an article from Thabiti Anyabwile on the importance of every church member being Gospel Saturated.
Here is a tremendous interview of Josh Harris on his being discipled by C.J. Mahaney.
From a different perspective, here is an interview of Roger Olson on Arminian Theology.

(By John MacArthur)
What’s the Biggest Problem with Contemporary Church Music?
It should be clear to anyone who examines the subject carefully that modern church music, as a rule, is vastly inferior to the classic hymns that were being written 200 years ago.
And incidentally, my own assessment is that the style in which music is written today [...]

(By Jesse Johnson)
* Jesse serves as the Pastor of Local Outreach at Grace Community Church.
Luke 18, Mark 10, and Matthew 19 give us the familiar story of the rich young ruler. This story is perhaps the most commonly used model for evangelism from the Gospels, and many evangelistic programs are modeled off of this encounter.
This [...]

(By John MacArthur)
All people like to be happy — to be exhilarated with joy, to feel good, and to be on top of everything. There’s nothing wrong with that. God wants joyous, excited, happy, and uplifted people. The problem lies in how happiness is generated. Some people think they’ll find it in a liquor bottle [...]

(Posted by Nathan Busenitz)
In case you missed last night’s Larry King Live episode (in which John MacArthur participated as part of a panel discussion toward the end of the show), you can read the transcript here.
Below are a couple highlights:
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KING: You’re definitely a fundamentalist Christian.
MACARTHUR: Yes, in the positive sense of proclaiming the fundamental truths of [...]