Matt Boga

Book Review: “How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church” by C. Christopher Smith

By: Matt Boga November 1, 2019November 1, 2019

PublicationsBook Review, C. Christopher Smith, Modern Reformation, TrinitarianismLeave a Comment

C. Christopher Smith wants to get the church talking to one another–even if the conversation is a bit difficult. In his book How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church, Smith lays out what he believes to be the best practices to get the church talking.

Dwelling on Death

By: Matt Boga October 19, 2019October 19, 2019

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Death is one of the few things in life that absolutely every single one of us will experience personally. We tend to push it away, but we shouldn’t. When we contemplate what death means, we actually find life. I wrote an article on the importance of the topic over at For The Church. Here’s an…

Our Rainbow Baby

By: Matt Boga October 1, 2019October 1, 2019

BlogChildren, Miscarriage, Rainbow BabyLeave a Comment

We miss our little girl, but we love our Ezra with everything we have. All of our children are God’s good gifts to us. Not replacements, not forgotten, but, instead, as the Psalmist describes them, “a heritage from the LORD” (Psalm 127:3).

Book Review: “Reappearing Church: The Hope For Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture” by Mark Sayers

By: Matt Boga September 26, 2019September 26, 2019

PublicationsBook Review, Mark Sayers, Modern ReformationLeave a Comment

Australian pastor and author Mark Sayers brings his well-known and insightful cultural commentary into the space of our declining Western culture with the hope of paving a way toward the revival of the Church with his newest book, Reappearing Church.

If God is Gracious, Why Can’t I do What I Want?

By: Matt Boga September 19, 2019September 18, 2019

PublicationsCore Christianity, Grace, Sin, WorksLeave a Comment

At some point or another, we’ve probably all wondered this question: Why can’t we just keep on sinning if God is just going to keep on forgiving? This is a question that the Apostle Paul expected us to be asking, and so he dealt with it in his letter to the Romans. In this article…

10 Quotes from “Reappearing Church: The Hope of Renewal in the Rise of our Post-Christian Culture” by Mark Sayers

By: Matt Boga September 16, 2019September 25, 2019

Quote ListsMark Sayers, Renewal, RevivalLeave a Comment

With his newest book, Australian Pastor and author, Mark Sayers, takes his well-known and insightful cultural commentary and applies it to the topic of revival. Sayers wrote this book for an audience he expects is “hungry for God” and “[desires] to see him move again with power” (10). This book is not for the cold…

The Hopeful Curse

By: Matt Boga September 5, 2019September 16, 2019

BlogDerek Kidner, Gospel, ProtoevangeliumLeave a Comment

“[It’s remarkable that the protoevangelium] makes its debut as a sentence passed on the enemy, not a direct promise to man, for redemption is as much about God’s rule as about man’s need.” –Derek Kidner Genesis 3 begins with the account of The Fall. In The Fall account, we read that Adam and Eve–humanity’s representatives…

God Won’t Always Open A Window

By: Matt Boga August 7, 2019August 6, 2019

PublicationsCore Christianity, Suffering, Worldly WisdomLeave a Comment

Those of us that are well-trained in cultural-Christian platitudes may be quick to tell our suffering loved ones “When God closes a door, he opens a window.” We say it with the most sincere intentions, but we likely haven’t inspected the words we’re saying to see if they square with what God has revealed to…

20 Quotes from “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible” by Mark Dever

By: Matt Boga August 1, 2019September 10, 2019

Quote Lists9Marks, Church Discipline, Ecclesiology, Mark Dever, The ChurchLeave a Comment

Mark Dever, Senior Pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, is a Baptist. If for some reason you think he isn’t convinced of his baptistic stances, or if you think, when pressed about Baptist distinctives, he might say something like, “Well, we can’t really know so we’ll just agree to disagree.” You’re dead…

25 Quotes from “Seek First: How the Kingdom of God Changes Everything” by Jeremy Treat

By: Matt Boga July 23, 2019August 3, 2019

Quote ListsJeremy Treat, Seek First, The Kingdom of GodLeave a Comment

Jeremy defines the kingdom of God as: God’s reign through God’s people over God’s place (p. 15). In eight words he offers for us this working definition, and then for the rest of the book he elaborates on how that definition permeates our entire lives in the buckets of Kingdom Perspective, Kingdom Purpose, and Kingdom People.