From Mike Wittmer: Read 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 So, my dear brothers and sisters, when you gather for the Lord’s Supper, wait for each other (v. 33). The wise pastor told his new worship director, “There is one style of music I hope you never play in our church.” She grabbed a pen and asked, “What …
A post about growing a heart that genuinely is joyful when hearing about other churches that are seeing more fruit than the one you belong to. This is hard. For me, anyway. We strive to see fruitfulness in our mission and ministry, but when others seem to have blessings that we’d like to experience there’s …
Paul Clark Jr writes about intentionally pursuing corporate worship which demonstrates the shattering of barriers which can only happen through the Gospel. In this case, it is the relentless pursuit of youth preferences and that which is new. When contemporary church life seeks (even inadvertently) to put barriers back it undermines Gospel life and witness. …
Constructive insights into personal failure from David Murray. Some of the lessons I’ve learned from failure: My failures are usually the result of over-confidence. When I’ve failed it’s often because I was putting too much trust in myself and not enough in God. A happy side-effect is that it has usually produced more prayerful dependence …
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