‘Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World’ (Crossway, 2008) a collection of essays by Pastors and leaders of various Congregations of Sovereign Grace Ministry churches under the editorship of C.J. Mahaney. It is a short, punchy read: 171 pages in an 18cm by 13cm hardback. Mahaney’s introductory essay asks if the verse 1 John …
Today at Friday Bible Study we sought to apply Brian Chapell’s Fallen Condition Focus to the book of Jonah. Those of you who are regular readers will recall that as Jesus walked on the road to Emmaus with the two travellers: ‘with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them [the Emmaus travellers] in …
Something that I have been continuing to think about since returning from Timor Leste is the primacy which the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of TL is seeking to give to evangelism and the ministry of God’s Word. In a nation where so many have so little, where needs abound, it is a striking emphasis. As a …
Bryan Chapell spoke on Christ Centered Preaching at the 2009 SMBC Preaching Conference. An integral aspect of his material is that each passage of Scripture relates to Christ through the presence of a Fallen Condition Focus. This is not to say that every passage in the Bible mentions Jesus directly or indirectly, but that as …
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