Sometimes I feel the effective Christian life is confined to one personality type. Or, at the very least, that it’s not fair that one personality type seems ideally suited for reaching out. Sammy Rhodes gives some relief with an observation that the Good News is embodied in a community of all types of people. One …

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Song: My Heart Is Filled With Thankfulness Welcome: Call to Worship Song: In Christ Alone Prayer Of Confession Song: The King Of Love My Shepherd Is Affirming our Faith: New City Catechism 14 Song: Now To Him Who Loved Us Bible Reading: Zechariah 14: 1-21 – Zechariah announces the coming “day of the LORD,” a …

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In a post about leadership Ed Stetzer identifies a number of areas that he describes as mature leadership. On of these has to do with accountability. Mature leaders purposefully set up structures for accountability and then seek and receive genuine accountability within those structures. They understand that it is easy to be drawn into inappropriate …

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Murray Campbell provides an encouraging report about a gathering of people from different churches in Melbourne. As part of that he writes of his appreciation for speaker Mark Dever asking that the lights in the auditorium be turned up. The practice has crept into Christian gatherings with increasing frequency and serves to decrease the corporate …

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