Pertinent and helpful questions from Doug Wolter: As people enter our doors this Easter Sunday, will they see us as real people worshiping a real Savior? Will they enter a community of grace? Tim Chester, in his excellent book, You Can Change, lists some great questions to discern if your church is a community of grace, and …

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…with apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein. Kevin DeYoung offers three posts ‘Can Pietism and Confessionalism Be Friends?’ Part one Part two Part three DeYoung seeks to address the contention that: Pietism, it is said, emphasizes dramatic conversions, tends toward individualism, pushes for unity based on shared experience, and pays little attention to careful doctrinal formulation. …

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Harry Reeder exhorts the church to consider the traditions it has received humbly, while being prepared to hold them loosely enough to ensure they always serve our mission: “Therefore, we cannot dismiss the past nor should we live in the past. The church must learn from the past yet avoid becoming a museum of the …

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Liam Goligher is soon to assume the same pulpit that Barnhouse, Boice and Ryken have preached from. Here he introduces a piece of commentary on the controversy which has arisen from the promotional material for Rob Bell’s upcoming book with these words: Just yesterday someone told me of a sincere and well-meaning Christian family who …

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