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 …
I’m wonderfully prayed for and encouraged here at mgpc. It’s not that everyone agrees with me, or won’t tell me when they don’t; but whatever the circumstances we share a common purpose which means our interactions are constructive. But I know that there are servants of the Gospel whose hearts will be heavy tonight with …
Yesterday I linked to a couple of items about IMAGINARY Pastor Brad Tower’s plans for his FICTIONAL church’s Vacation Bible School to ‘SHOCK and AWE’ the children. Today in a post called The Kids Love Me Pastor Brad shares how things are going. Along with an incident that arose from riding a minature buffalo, another …
Three posts from Ligon Duncan on the The First Presbyterian Church of Jackson website/blog. Reproduced from 2002, the content is sound and timely. Here are Duncan’s six head-points: (1) we need elders who want the work, not just the status of an elder; (2) we need elders who are godly men – because character, godliness, …
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