Get a taste of how those fortunate students at the (Presbyterian) Queensland Theological College can expect to be equipped by the teaching of their incoming principal, Gary Millar. Preaching Christ from the Old Testament is hard. It’s hard because the Old Testament text itself can be hard to deal with—it’s long, complicated, and culturally distant. …
At mgpc we have a time of corporate prayer during our Sunday evening meeting. These thoughts from Kevin DeYoung make me wonder if we could expand on that in some way. I particularly like the suggestion about not spending much time sharing prayer points. There’s no need to tell each other what we’re going to …
The Christian life is not learning how to cope better. It’s learning to realise you can’t cope through your own resources more and more quickly. Which takes a life-time. From Michael Kelly: Ah, the theological platitudes of Hallmark Christianity. Statements like these are quoted so often that they’re generally regarded as biblical truth: God helps …
Russell Moore makes some points about how people can be orthodox in their belief, but liberal in their practice by denying the dimension of the Gospel life known as forgiveness. All of us are going to have some painfully broken relationships. But they shouldn’t be the norm for a Christian’s life. The most difficult math …
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