From the 9Marks blog: At the Trellis and Vine Workshop in DC today, Colin Marshall shared ways that ordinary church members can serve the church on Sunday mornings. Before the Service Read the passage in advance Pray for the gathering Greet newcomers (act like you are the host) Think strategically about who you should sit …
Tim Challies posted this on his blog a week or so ago. I like reading it and think it’s a helpful piece for pastors to consider on the day after our day of principle exertion. The black dog sniffs at the door on Mondays. Stuff like this helps shoo him away. Others May, You Cannot …
God gives us Gospel freedom when He saves us. We’re saved because of Jesus. Sadly our own natures will always want to work to earn what can only be received as a gift. If there is a place for ‘works’ in the Christian life it is the effort to stop trying to live as if …
Amen and amen. From the blog of Dan Orr, ‘It’s A Beautiful Gospel’: No, the gospel is not primarily a second chance for you to get your life back on the right track. Rather, it’s a decisive declaration that your life is utterly jacked up and hopeless, but that the King of the universe came …
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