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.
This is (subtly) a trailer for Packer’s latest book. In it he says some very important and true things, and it’s worth listening to. It is also encouraging to see a mature aged Christian maintaining a steady testimony about central matters of faith in old age.
I enjoyed the remade movie True Grit a few years ago. Absent from that movie were direct references to the Presbyterianism of lead character Mattie Ross. John Clayton provides five examples from the novel on which the movie is based. Having never read the book I found these interesting, and deepened my understanding of the …
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