David Murray quotes these twelve reasons why public worship is better than private worship from a sermon by David Clarkson. This shouldn’t be read as a denigration of private devotional activity, but in an individualistic and sentimental age it is helpful to remember that salvation is a corporate experience with individual responsibilities, not an individual …
Mark Altogge provides this list of things not to say to the preacher after he’s preached the sermon. None of them were said to me yesterday. Thankfully. Commiserations if any were said to you. Wow that was the best sleep I’ve ever had! I know you were preaching on Matthew but I just couldn’t stop thinking about …
David Robertson reflects on the response to two previous posts (here and here) about evangelicalism and events in the church in Scotland, notably the conflict between the Tron congregation in Glasgow and the Church of Scotland. (Robertson’s posts elicited two very constructive responses here and here. Well worth reading for further context.) The post is …
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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