Damien offered a response to my post on repentance in corporate worship. A helpful resource for those leading prayer during corporate worship (especially churches whose worship follows some application of the dialogical principle, the concept of worship as covenant reaffirmation, God speaks, the people respond) is the Jan/Feb 2008 9Marks ejournal. Articles include: A Biblical …
Jared Wilson writes about the adoption of what he terms ‘baptismal dual practice’. Wilson pastors an independant congregation which has members who represent both what I’ll call the ‘covenant family’ and ‘professing believer’ positions on baptism. As part of a confessing body of churches this issue is not one that we would deal with constitutionally …
Fifteen years ago or so I was teaching the account of Elisha, the youths and the bears with a flannelgraph to a mixed primary kids club. One of the parents was mortified and didn’t believe the story was in the Bible until she looked it up. Like Ehud and his sword, these are the sorts …
My Heart Is Filled With Thankfulness is a Townend and Getty composition from 2003. The big attraction here is that the Christian’s thankfulness is completely grounded in Christ. His suffering God’s judgement for our sins in our place, His daily presence with us and His eternal presence at the Father’s right hand. Not a shred …
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