Bryan Chapell expands on various sermons which apply his Christ-Centered Preaching motif in his new book Christ-Centered Sermons. The fundamental principle: We should always observe biblical texts through spectacles containing the lenses of these two questions: How is the Holy Spirit revealing in this text the nature of God that provides redemption? And how is …
I’m going to be looking at Renewing Neighborhoods, Restoring Lives, maybe you’d like to as well. Sojourn Community Church work through the ways in which the Gospel creates empathetic caring without empathetic caring replacing the Gospel as central to local church ministry and mission. It’s available in pdf and Kindle file versions.
David Cook (Moderator-General, Presbyterian Church of Australia) writes about recent visits to Presbyterian schools and offers words of encouragement and challenge about communicating the Gospel to new generations. The rock band, Daft Punk released their much anticipated album, Random Access Memories, in May 2013 at the 79th Annual Wee Waa Show. It seemed so out …
Mark Buchanan contrasts the virtue of simple-mindedness and the fruit of shrewdness with the double-mindedness of the age and duplicity it breeds. An excerpt: There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said …
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