Bob Kauflin contrasts the other settings in which people gather to sing with the church and why the church’s activity of singing together is unique. The Sunday gathering is not a homogeneous group of people who shop at the same stores, play the same video games, have the same iTunes playlists, and wear the same …
This is a helpful list from Tim Brister: 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 & heals – both/and not either/or. People …
Mark Buchanan writes about the way in divisions in churches start small… I don’t know what the Apostle Paul’s thorn in his side was. But I know one of mine: the will to be a slave to my own pettiness. Sometimes entire churches fall prey to this temptation. Pettiness becomes their governing principle. Their ethos. …
The Lord Jesus has borne the burden of judgment for the Christian’s sins. Then Jesus calls on his people to bear each other’s burdens. From Daniel Hyde, in a post at Ligonier: …since we in the new covenant are all priests of the Lord who can approach Him with boldness and confidence in prayer (Heb. …
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