Christian life is not a solo pursuit. To finish strong in the faith Christians need the support and accountability of a community of other Christians. And those other Christians need you to help them finish well too. A new setting for the hymn Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) will be introduced as we prepare …
Thom Rainer featured a post recently about ‘Guest blindness’, the inability to perceive our churches the way that newcomers see it. A local church gets used to its culture and facilities and can overlook a lack of hospitality or incremental decline. Over time a pastor who worked away on these issues develops fatigue about having …
Talk among the local pastors this morning turned to planting churches. The conversation covered various hair-raising stories, and involved church plants which have gone on and others which didn’t take root. Which got us onto remembering that churches are born and grow not according to human will but the sovereign purpose of God. This observation …
Reformation Trust Publishing and Ligonier Ministries are making the electronic editions of John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, Doxology available for free during October. You can get the Kindle edition free at Amazon. Other electronic publication types can be accessed at this page. This is a no-brainer. Go and get it. Ligonier describe the …
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