Sinclair Ferguson, commenting on Mark 2:1-12 (Jesus’ healing of a paralytic who was lowered through a hole in the ceiling by four men): “Here Mark unveils what lies at the heart of the gospel: men need forgiveness; Jesus gives it. To the degree to which you see your own need of forgiveness is the measure …
Watch someone with a completely scripted contemporary order of service maintain they’re non-liturgical. Stephen McAlpine bounces off the observation that all churches have a liturgy of some sort or another, the issue is whether it conveys the reality of the Kingdom of God or is shaped as a pastiche that reflects the Kingdom of the …
Chuck Lawless offers ten signs leaders have stopped growing. The head points of his list: You can talk about nothing new about God and His grace. You’ve read no new books in the last six months. You are preaching and teaching “re-runs.” You haven’t recently tackled any “God-sized” challenges. You haven’t shared the gospel with …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 39 Chapter 23 – Of the Civil Magistrate I. God, the Supreme Lord and King of all the world, has ordained civil magistrates to be under him over the people, for his own glory and the public good; and to this end, has armed them with the power …
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