M. Justin Wainscott writes about the lessons he learns as a younger pastor of older Christians. Each of his points of appreciation holds true for any young Christian. His applications should be taken to heart by every Christian. When you’re in the situation of looking for a church, don’t be totally consumed by whether there …
Amen and amen. From the blog of Dan Orr, ‘It’s A Beautiful Gospel’: No, the gospel is not primarily a second chance for you to get your life back on the right track. Rather, it’s a decisive declaration that your life is utterly jacked up and hopeless, but that the King of the universe came …
For years I’ve been singing Rob Smith’s lyric ‘Let these broken bones rise up and rejoice’ without really reflecting on their origin from Psalm 51, and without considering that the sentiment is not ‘Let these healed bones rise up and rejoice’, but that our joy is expressed from a place of brokenness. Paul Tripp explains …
Amazingly there’s a lot of support for the notion that God’s plan for the church all along was really a bunch of people sitting in a circle in someone’s lounge room, drinking coffee, singing Kumbaya and encouraging each other with what ever they think God’s been saying, either in the Bible or by any other …
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