Thom Rainer outlines the cycle of vitality and decline that he has observed in growing and shrinking churches. Locally I deal with churches demonstrating the fourth and fifth of these stages. Even though being a growing church is especially challenging in country areas where population bases are declining, these churches have a culture that reflects …
Glen Scrivener writes ten thoughts that have sustained him as he supports his wife through mental illness. They are his perspectives, shaped from his experiences, and he offers them for whatever others may gain from them. Here’s one: Your Oneness Is Deeper Than This Problem It’s never “you vs. your problem spouse.” It’s always “you …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 48 Chapter 29 – Of The Lord’s Supper (Cont.) Paragraphs 5-8 V. The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, yet sacramentally only, they are sometimes called by the name of the …
Jerry Bridges points out that unless you understand Jesus’ parable of the workers in the field by knowing that we’re all those who were engaged at the eleventh hour then you don’t understand it properly. As you worship tomorrow we all gather as those who have received far more than anything we could have earned, …
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