People give me an odd look when I say we want everyone to go home on Sundays a bit unhappy that the Service wasn’t exactly how they would prefer it to be. Bobby Jamieson explains the point in a post at the 9Marks Blog. Here’s an excerpt: …To put it bluntly, nobody gets the church …
Paul Tripp relates an incident involving mobile phone lost on the wrong side of a border that evoked an all-too-familiar reaction and the familiar feeling that those of us who counsel others about the security of resting in the sovereignty of God get when we find that we don’t want to accept our own advice. …
Encouraging observations from Tim Brister: You know you are living in gospel community when… believers practice confession instead of trying to make an impression people are defined by a lifestyle of repenting rather than pretending you embrace truth at all costs, not agreeing for each others approval light exposes & wounds and love covers & …
Mark Buchanan contrasts the virtue of simple-mindedness and the fruit of shrewdness with the double-mindedness of the age and duplicity it breeds. An excerpt: There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said …
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