I’m going to be looking at Renewing Neighborhoods, Restoring Lives, maybe you’d like to as well. Sojourn Community Church work through the ways in which the Gospel creates empathetic caring without empathetic caring replacing the Gospel as central to local church ministry and mission. It’s available in pdf and Kindle file versions.
Mark Buchanan contrasts the virtue of simple-mindedness and the fruit of shrewdness with the double-mindedness of the age and duplicity it breeds. An excerpt: There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said …
Phillip Jensen exhorts preachers and congregations to commit to drawing closer together through the life-changing activity of the ministry of the Word in corporate gathering. …preaching has other functions in church life. It engages and unites the congregation in our common discipleship. As we sit week by week together under the word of God we …
J.D. Greear marks the 58th anniversary of the death of Jim Elliot (martyred in Ecuador at the age of 28) with this quote from a letter by Elliot to his parents about his intention to go: “I do not wonder that you were saddened at the word of my going to South America. This is …
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