Subtitled: A marketing consultant advises early church leaders, this provides perceptive insight into some contemporary church growth strategies. …Let’s begin with one of your leading PR men, Peter, who is clearly a gifted communicator. We believe he would find that our seminar “Winning Techniques for Effective Communication” would help him be more effective still! Unfortunately, …

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Sri Lankan pastor Ajith Fernando’s online essay To Serve Is To Suffer has received a substantial amount of favourable comment on the blogosphere. Some quotes: We have measured success by the standards of the world and fail to challenge the world with the radically different biblical way to fulfillment. The contemporary emphasis on efficiency and …

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The Desiring God blog has featured Twelve Appeals To Prosperity Preachers from John Piper. The content has been drawn from Piper’s book ‘Let The Nations Be Glad’. As Piper points out This is the missing note in prosperity preaching. The New Testament aims at the glory of Christ, not the glory of his gifts. To …

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Keller outlines how a knowledge of secular philosophical trends in moral standards can help create bridges to present biblical standards. It reminds me of the Apostle Paul’s apologetic in at the Areopagus in Acts 17:22ff. I don’t want to try and pick apart Keller’s tight light of reasoning, but would rather you went and read …

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