These sorts of posts pop up from time to time and they’re always worth reflecting on, particularly for Christians. Make sure your family knows you want your funeral to be about Jesus and not about you. People are under all sorts of pressure to conform to a pattern that makes a funeral all about the …
Murray Campbell from Menton Baptist offers his personal preparations for Sunday worship in the hope they’ll be helpful. Here’s the key points: 1. Read through the Bible passage that will be preached on that coming Sunday. 2. Look to encourage someone to make the effort to be at Church that week through email, phone call, …
I linked to a previous post where Tim Chester explained the logic that informs the meetings his church has. In this follow up he expands on that by writing about the actions of their meetings and how they give expression to their aims. He deals with it under four sections: Call Confession Word Response Read …
At Reformation 21, Jeremy Walker provides some earnest and good-humoured commentary dealing with the situation reported in Acts where Eutychus falls asleep (and out a window) during a late night sermon by the Apostle Paul. Walker believes that, rather than Eutychus and Paul having committed the rather contemporary transgressions of being bored and being boring, …
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