Amen and amen. From the blog of Dan Orr, ‘It’s A Beautiful Gospel’: No, the gospel is not primarily a second chance for you to get your life back on the right track. Rather, it’s a decisive declaration that your life is utterly jacked up and hopeless, but that the King of the universe came …
An interesting piece from Phillip Jensen on evangelical worship. In it Jensen observes: many evangelicals are choosing to turn away from the evangelical faith when it comes to their worship. Our worship should reflect our theology. In fact it nearly always does reflect our theology. Unfortunately sometimes what it reflects is confusion in theology. When …
Being part of the body of Christ means that when you’re in the minority on a decision you don’t go out and moan all around the town to anyone who’ll listen about what a poor decision it was. That sort of behaviour is not conscience, it’s disfunction. I liked this quote from Ray Ortlund’s blog. …
For years I’ve been singing Rob Smith’s lyric ‘Let these broken bones rise up and rejoice’ without really reflecting on their origin from Psalm 51, and without considering that the sentiment is not ‘Let these healed bones rise up and rejoice’, but that our joy is expressed from a place of brokenness. Paul Tripp explains …
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