Longish post from Tony Payne at The Briefing in which he explores ‘The Why And How Of Running Sunday Meetings’. There’s a lot of thoughtful and useful material. I was interested to see that his basic schema for a ‘meeting’ is: Good meetings have conceptual flow Like sermons or books or articles or speeches, a …
We were having exactly this conversation last night, so I’m posting this here so Roger (and all of you) can read it. The post is from Crossway Publishing blog and is based on themes explored in a new book The Joy Of Calvinism. (No, you shouldn’t wait for the movie) 1. Calvinism Does Not Deny …
Last night mgpc had another first Sunday prayer service. That’s three. After prayer it’s common to feel some sense of inadequacy about the words, the duration, the number of folk, all of which strike at your confidence about God’s will to answer prayer. David Murray puts it this way… “…and forgive my sins. In Jesus …
In transit yesterday, reading Spiritual Seasons by Mark Buchanan, one of the ideas I came across was that the pastor is an occupational enemy of nostalgia. Remembering past blessings is not only okay, it is absolutely imperative for spiritual health and vitality. Problems emerge though when ‘our instinct for heaven’ finds itself ‘rummaging in the …
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