Part 1 here. Reeder’s prayer: “Lord, please launch a movement of grace for the kingdom of God in our midst and in our day, Father! Please! Do it again, and do it with us!” (pg 38) On ‘Three-D leadership‘: “…instead of following the whims of the world and the ‘spirit of the world’ (1 Cor. …
Had a bit of an interaction with a friend on Facebook yesterday. This seems relevant to what we were talking about. From Tim Chester’s blog. (Which you should check often, lots of good stuff.) Everyday Justification Many of us are confident we’ll be justified on the last day – acquitted before God through the death …
This is an animation of Francis Chan’s parable ‘The Big Red Tractor’. It gets bonus points for the village people reference. I appreciate Chan’s overall point. It seems to me though, that the church of the New Testament can be idealised/romanticised and the church of today viewed very pessimistically. The operating power now and then …
Stephen dropped by this blog today. On his blog he has a review of John Benton’s book ‘Why Join A Small Church’. In the course of the review Stephen observes: ‘(Many large churches are small churches with large fringes; the core of the church is still a bunch of a dozen to 30-odd people who …
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