“Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words” is one of those sentimental woolly headed pieces of nicety that sounds fine until you realise that it doesn’t really mean a thing. Well, not a true thing anyway. It’s right up there with such classics as “Give someone your phone number; when necessary use …
Jared Wilson writes [And I add a couple of thoughts in brackets]: If your church meets one or more of these, it might be a spiritual pep rally, a religious performance center, a Christian social club, or something else entirely, but it is probably not, biblically speaking, a gathering of the biblical church. You never …
Yesterday ‘J’ (a colleague whom I have never met) left a Facebook comment stating that he had been told that “he keeps on going on about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins”. Apparently ‘Js’ preaching always seems to reference Jesus dying on the cross for people’s sins. ‘J’ received quite a number of …
From the Crossway Publishing blog: Greg Gilbert’s What is the Gospel? is available for free this month on Amazon’s Kindle and in the iBook store! But just as the gospel isn’t only for us individually, our desire is that this content would reach well beyond those of you who download it for free! I downloaded …
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