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Feb 1, 2020
4 min

What is it? Explaining the Gist of Good Preaching

The only person in the church required to be more precise than the choir is the person who instructs the choir. The only person in the churc

The Myth of Gospel-Centered Preaching: Part Two

Jason Cherry

Dec 15, 2019
3 min

The Myth of Gospel-Centered Preaching: Part Two

Gospel-centered preaching tweaks the Gospel to be about self-acceptance. It is a message that says, “God accepts you, he wants you to be you

Jason Cherry

Dec 14, 2019
1 min

What is Christian Education?

The solution to sin-bondage is not to create an entire system that gives people over to their sinful desires. Sinners need liberation from t

The Myth of Gospel-Centered Preaching: Part One

Jason Cherry

Dec 14, 2019
6 min

The Myth of Gospel-Centered Preaching: Part One

The hypocrisy of the Gospel-centered preaching is that it is not Great Commission preaching. If the preacher proclaims that Christ is mighty

Jason Cherry

Nov 10, 2019
1 min

The Socratic Lecture

The lecture needs a comeback.

A Lament Answered (Or here is a book recommendation)

Jason Cherry

Nov 12, 2017
1 min

A Lament Answered (Or here is a book recommendation)

Book recommendation for a new work of historical theology on the doctrine of conversion.

Jason Cherry

Sep 7, 2017
1 min

Clarifying the Challenge

The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has published their massive survey on American denominational identity. The study confirms...

Why My Kid Doesn’t Attend Vacation Bible School

Jason Cherry

May 15, 2017
3 min

Why My Kid Doesn’t Attend Vacation Bible School

The first law of VBS: don’t run out of red drink. Most church kids remember well the summertime tradition of VBS week. Mom’s exhausting them

One or Another? Reflections on the Great Commission

Jason Cherry

May 7, 2017
3 min

One or Another? Reflections on the Great Commission

In the summer of 1989, the American magazine National Interest published an essay with the provocative title "The End of History?"

Jason Cherry

Mar 18, 2017
2 min

Thick or Thin

American Christianity needs to begin thinking in terms of survival and retention, not as a primary agenda, but as an agenda nonetheless.

What do changing demographics have to do with the altar call?

Jason Cherry

Mar 1, 2017
2 min

What do changing demographics have to do with the altar call?

Changing worldwide demographics demonstrated the urgent need to study the altar call and the conversionism that has become codified in the A

Why Does Historical Knowledge Breed Effective Change?

Jason Cherry

Jan 10, 2017
2 min

Why Does Historical Knowledge Breed Effective Change?

As an April Fools’ gag a few years ago NPR published the following article: As you might imagine, the “comments” section was soon filled...

Jason Cherry

Dec 18, 2016
2 min

Why Read Amateurs?

You will, no doubt, be given pause at the discovery that The Culture of Conversionism and the History of the Altar Call is self-published. I

Four Reasons Young Evangelicals Should Learn the History of the Altar Call

Jason Cherry

Nov 13, 2016
3 min

Four Reasons Young Evangelicals Should Learn the History of the Altar Call

Since the beginning of days human beings have hankered to rank things. The caveman ranked the loin cloths of their fellow cavers. Northern E

Why did Martyn Lloyd-Jones Not Give an Altar Call?

Jason Cherry

Nov 13, 2016
2 min

Why did Martyn Lloyd-Jones Not Give an Altar Call?

Historical figures get frozen in time, remembered for those one or two bullet point things. For Isaac Newton it is the apple falling on his

Why Have Christian Historians Ignored the Altar Call?

Jason Cherry

Mar 31, 2016
4 min

Why Have Christian Historians Ignored the Altar Call?

The altar call is simultaneously the most central and most unstudied methodology in the American church in the past two hundred years. Those

Altar Call Clichés: Things an Expositor Hopes to Never Say

Jason Cherry

Mar 27, 2016
3 min

Altar Call Clichés: Things an Expositor Hopes to Never Say

Altar call language is now repellent clichés that drop out of the mouth of the conversionism preacher.

Jason Cherry

Mar 25, 2016
2 min

Altar Call Revisionism

Christopher Columbus’ (1451-1506) American voyages did not convince Europe that the earth was round, at least not until Washington...

Jason Cherry

Mar 12, 2016
2 min

Submerged

There is a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ seventeen meters deep in the Mediterranean Sea. Unbeknownst to its creator, Guido...

Christians and History and Christian History

Jason Cherry

Mar 5, 2016
1 min

Christians and History and Christian History

The following article can be read at: https://classicaldifference.com/christians-and-history-and-christian-history/ #Historiography...

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