Dale Ortlund asked “a handful [26] of thoughtful men of God” the question “What’s the Key to Healthy Christian Growth in Godliness?” and collated their responses into a post on his blog. In his prefacing comments Ortlund qualifies: Please understand: I explicitly asked our brothers to keep it to a single, short sentence. Of course, …
From the keyboard of Robert Benn, moderator of the 2007 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and received through the PresENews email network: Dear friends, On October 17th, this year, in Rome, Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint, is to be “canonized”. Of course we are interested in this, because some of our tax …
Tullian Tchividjian explains the decision to discontinue ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ branded services at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church: (Excerpt:) You see, when we separate people according to something as trivial as musical preferences, we evidence a fundamental failure to comprehend the heart of the gospel. We’re not only feeding toxic tribalism; we’re also saying the gospel …
Sri Lankan pastor Ajith Fernando’s online essay To Serve Is To Suffer has received a substantial amount of favourable comment on the blogosphere. Some quotes: We have measured success by the standards of the world and fail to challenge the world with the radically different biblical way to fulfillment. The contemporary emphasis on efficiency and …
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