My article for the latest edition of mgpc’s monthly church newsletter, Connexions: Perhaps in the evenings lately you’ve been watching the show featuring over-weight people weeping a lot. Or perhaps you’ve been watching the one featuring over-weight minor celebrities weeping a lot. Those of you who don’t can imagine the sort of thing that goes …
A local church should be a body of people whose only reason for hanging out together is that Jesus loves them and they love Jesus and Jesus has joined them all together. Anything else we share in common is a bonus. The notion that people should be looking for a church on the basis of …
Tim Chester points out that living functionally as if we are our own Saviour builds up resistance to the truth of the Gospel, even if we’re part of the church. There are two ways we get life wrong. 1. We want to be our own Lord instead of Jesus In other words, I replace Jesus …
Every day Scotty Smith shares a prayer with the rest of us. May we live grace, as well as rest in it. A Prayer for Smug Grace Legalists, Like Me And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat …
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