The Bible is an ongoing narrative of God’s capacity and desire to do everything that his people need, only for people to keep wanting to do what they can’t achieve in his place. From Chad Bird: Doing nothing is the hardest thing for us to do. we’d rather talk nonstop for hours than be utterly …
Chad Bird likens the action of the church in greeting the me generation with an emphasis on an individualistic experience of salvation to attempting to douse a fire with petrol. His comments below are well balanced in that they do not make the fulfilment of Adam and Eve out to be marriage, as if any …
The use of language in preaching does more than convey information, it helps bring to heard and mind the emotions that the information should evoke. The words, images, and stories used should help disciples of Jesus resonate with their memories of past experiences of God’s grace in their lives. Remembrancers stir the affections not with …
Marriage, contrary to popular thought is not a dream within a dream. It is a mutual commitment by two people to live as one for the the duration of their lives. And if it was easy, why would we need promises to hold ourselves to it? From Chad Bird: That’s why love is not something …
mgpcpastor's blog 