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 …
Each week there’s a spot in our local newspaper, The Border Watch, for an article by one of the local ministers. They call it ‘Keeping The Faith’. One of my colleagues writes most of them, but he’s in Papua New Guinea at the moment, so he’s lined a few of us up to write pieces …
In an interchange on Facebook I mentioned that when we made the changeover to using the ESV as the English Bible that we read during church services at mgpc we made use of a short essay by Kevin DeYoung which outlines the merits of the ESV. The essay was used in the context of the …
Ed Stetzer concludes a series of posts with a great set of observations about the danger of making an effort of connect with the culture of those to whom the Gospel is being communicated our primary goal instead of a means of sharing the Gospel. Every one of these points are worth reading and reflecting …
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