Following up from a post about his congregation’s one-Sunday-night-a-month-prayer-meeting, Kevin DeYoung provides this sample of what such a meeting looks like: Praying Through the Fruit of the Spirit But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23) Love Hymn …
Ed Welch’s words should not be confined to teenagers. People of all ages can fall into this spiritual trap, and some churches encourage them along the way. “Hello, I am a moralistic therapeutic deist.” That’s the word from a number of evangelical teens. I really liked that phrase when I first read it, though it …
At mgpc we have a time of corporate prayer during our Sunday evening meeting. These thoughts from Kevin DeYoung make me wonder if we could expand on that in some way. I particularly like the suggestion about not spending much time sharing prayer points. There’s no need to tell each other what we’re going to …
Russell Moore makes some points about how people can be orthodox in their belief, but liberal in their practice by denying the dimension of the Gospel life known as forgiveness. All of us are going to have some painfully broken relationships. But they shouldn’t be the norm for a Christian’s life. The most difficult math …
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