Hope no one’s worried that I’m going high church with the Advent themed posts. I simply like the biblical themes which are addressed at this time of year and believe they are a helpful balance to the generally frenetic and sentimentalised rush the 25th. Here’s an interesting on where Michael LeFebvre, a Presbyterian pastor, explains …
We live in a culture determined to pathologise sadness. It seems that anything other than a cheery disposition is seen as a state which needs to be cured. For Christians who experience seasons of emotional flatness there can be a sense that they’re getting being a Christian wrong. As if being a Christian is based …
The Kindle edition of Trusting God by Jerry Bridges is again available for free from Amazon. It was previously available for free back in December 2010. Thanks Gospel eBooks. Because obeying God makes sense to us. In most cases, His laws appear reasonable and wise, and even when we don’t want to obey them, we …
I think I first read True Community by Jerry Bridges under the title True Fellowship. The Kindle edition is currently available for free at Amazon. It is a wonderfully practical and straightforward unfolding of that which is called koinonia in the original language of the New Testament. Small groups could do worse than read through …
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