Younger generations of families have no shortage of willing volunteers prepared to tell them which senior members of the family they most resemble. As Paul encourages Titus in his task of appointing leaders to local churches, the apostle reveals the essential image of a local church as he describes the character of their elders. The …
Preaching Christ avoids moralising texts, approaching them to draw out moral and ethical lessons to help us live better lives. But preaching Christ embraces the moral and ethical implications of responding to the saving work of Jesus revealed in the Scriptures. Kyle Worley provides a guest post at Trevin Wax’s blog on Preaching Christ And …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 26 Chapter 16 – Of Good Works (Cont.) (Paragraphs 1-4) V. We can not, by our best works, merit pardon of sin, or eternal life, at the hand of God, because of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come, and the infinite distance …
From Stephen J Nichols’ Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World, published by at Crossway. Nichols seeks to express Bonhoeffer’s every Christian ministry paradigm with these examples: The ministry of holding one’s tongue Bonhoeffer pegs silence as a self-discipline worthy of highest virtue. “Where the discipline of the tongue is practiced …
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