Q & A 83 Q. What are the keys of the kingdom? A. The preaching of the holy gospel and Christian discipline toward repentance. Both preaching and discipline open the kingdom of heaven to believers and close it to unbelievers. Q & A 84 Q. How does preaching the gospel open and close the kingdom …
Dan Phillips writes about church membership covenants at Pyromaniacs. As he considers the contrast between what could be termed low expectation and high expectation covenants he also notes a missing aspect of the whole issue: what the church leaders should be covenanting with the membership. He asks: Where is the elder-board’s (or whoever’s) list of …
Months ago I posted some practical notes on funerals that were well recieved. Brian Croft has posted a couple of very helpful articles on essential elements of funerals. What essentials need to be in every funeral service? The Unchanging character of God; The hope of the gospel; A call to respond to the gospel; and …
Jared Hood, lecturer and librarian at the Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, left a comment here yesterday. He commended his new blog/wiki Bibliopedia. What’s Bibliopedia? Here’s Jared’s introduction from his own blog: Bibliopedia is the most exciting development to come to the web, like, ever. It has bibliographies for various theological subjects, especially for use …
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