A constructive by post Michael Kruger about a constantly challenging subject: when mercy ministry changes from being a means by which the church’s mission is expressed and actually becomes the total of the church’s mission. We must help others. But that help must be Christ-centered. Last year mgpc held an appeal to provide Bibles to …
What was understood to be a new beginning of democracy in Egypt, the Arab Spring, has given way to a situation where Egyptians are in peril from their own, and where Egyptian Christians are suffering persecution under the guise of random civil unrest. This blog post aggregates reports of churches which have been attacked. It …
Now it may seem that I have no time for preaching that includes moral commands or draws conclusions about ethical behaviour. That’s not the case. It’s not about imposing the redemptive work of Jesus onto every text, but identifying how each texts relates to the redemptive work of Jesus. There is a difference. From an …
This is a theme that needs to be returned to again and again. It’s also the problem with sermons that strip-mine biblical narrative for things to do and not to do, but neglect to reference what Jesus has done, and what He is doing. An excerpt from the post at Liberate. Do you read the …
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