Brian Harvey is the Youth Ministries Director for the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. He has a blog. Here are his thoughts about the first day of his first time attending the National Youth Ministry Convention. He promises some follow-up posts about his experiences over the next few days.
Tullian Tchividjian again on the idea that law keeping and lawlessness are not polar ends of a spectrum with the Gospel in the middle, but that they are properly understood as being two sides of the one self-righteous, rebellious coin, to which the Gospel is God’s redeeming and renewing response. This is helpful because it …
Joni Eareckson Tada has had a significant profile as a Christian and a quadriplegic for decades. Speaking at John MacArthur’s Strange Fire conference Eareckson Tada spoke about her experience of God’s healing power in the present age. Tim Challies provides his notes. They’re worth reading in their entirety. Here’s an excerpt. …Joni wondered who this …
Deb reminds us that qualified thankfulness may sound like true gratitude, but it’s really a poor substitute of watered-down complaining. ‘Well, it’s not been a great day, but at least I’m not starving and living in a cardboard shack.’ That’s not gratitude. It might be something you are glad about, and it might seem like …
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