From Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology. There is always a danger of squeezing the Bible into a mold we bring to it rather than letting the Bible mold us. And, there could hardly be more diversity within the Protestant canon–diverse genres, historical settings, authors, literary levels, ages of history. But while the Bible is not uniform, it is …
Kevin DeYoung: It’s become popular in recent years for churches to skip the worship service periodically (once a year? a quarter? once a month?) in order to serve their communities. “No church this morning, we’re picking up trash in the park.” Is this thoughtful cultural engagement or another example of good intentions gone astray? It’s …
Timmy Brister posts a great compilation of short quotes on grace from Paul Tripp. A couple of examples: Face it, you and I don’t need to be tweaked, you tweak a poorly written sentence, you and I need to be radically rebuilt by grace. Grace frees you from the weight of the law, not so …
Helpful series by Karl Dahlfred who is a church planting missionary, originally from the US, now working in Thailand. What made this series interesting and helpful was Dahlfred’s illustrating the challenges to biblical preaching he identifies with examples from Thai culture. This helped me to better understand that our preaching needs to reveal, teach and …
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