Kevin DeYoung provides more detail about congregational prayer services. At MGPC we swiped the idea of first Sunday of the month evening services given over to prayer from an earlier post by DeYoung. I tend to get stuck in ruts, so this post which suggests variations of prayer content is very helpful for me. It …
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. …
The online version of the April-May 2014 edition of New Directions, the Presbyterian Church Of Queensland’s newspaper, has been posted at the PCQ website. Stories on new lecturers at the Queensland Theological College; 150 years of Presbyterian churches on the Darling Downs; the retirement of Andrew Young at St Paul’s; updates on the work of …
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