Mark Buchanan has two qualities you want in a Christian author: wise and constructive insight and skilled wordcraft. His latest book, Your Church Is Too Safe, releases soon and Buchanan’s blog has featured two chapters as recent posts. If you’ve got some time have a read of these. They’ll challenge and refresh you, all at …
Holding on to this thought is helpful to guard against the notion that Christianity helps us live better lives and that Jesus is our life-coach. It helps protect us from preaching and teaching that uses Scripture for moralistic and therapeutic purposes instead of pointing us to Jesus. From Mark Altrogge at The Blazing Center. When …
From Craig Groeschel: If you weren’t on staff at your church, would you worship there? [to which I add, ‘Do you only attend in the evenings because you’re paid to?’] If you didn’t know ANYTHING about Jesus, what would you know about him after a normal weekend at your church? If you had a loved …
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