Growing pains. I see many churches that are bemused by the fact that they’re pretty much dead, and generally all of them see no relationship between their conscious refusal to grow and their current situation. It’s a complete mystery to them how they’ve ended up this way. Usually you’re where you are because that’s the …
Ray Ortlund writes of church as ‘a social environment that feels like the grace of God’. This environment of God’s grace is not formed by the erection of barriers and putting on masks to create a perfect place filled with perfect people. Just the opposite. Because of the acceptance of God which we’ve all experienced …
My wife will be interested in this video. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield’s website describes her as “a former tenured professor of English at Syracuse University. After her conversion to Christianity in 1999, she developed a ministry to college students. She has taught and ministered at Geneva College and is a full-time mother and pastor’s wife, part-time …
Spiritual Warfare – A Biblical & Balanced Perspective by Brian Borgman and Rob Ventura (Reformation Heritage Books, 2014) aims to provide a framework for Christians to contend against spiritual darkness. In doing so the authors affirm a biblical worldview in which supernatural and natural coexist, guarding against both a naturalistic approach to Christian life which …
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