Some thoughts on the sample of three people impacted by the Gospel in Phillipi in Acts 16 from J.D. Greear. It’s wonderful too, to realise that these three very different people all found themselves in one Christian community because of Jesus. Acts 16 contains the stories of three people who were unlikely candidates for the …
The Gospel produces love for, and a desire to be with, other Christians in worship. From Matt Manry: Gospel-Motivated Church Attendance There is no doubt that what we need to recover in the life of Christians today is a gospel-motivated church attendance. What might this look like? Well, in my opinion it’s demonstrating the fact …
An excerpt from a post by Paul Tripp at Liberate: The Anger of Grace Let’s be very clear. God’s anger is the anger of grace. It isn’t the violent anger of unbridled and unrighteous fury. God’s anger always works to right what’s wrong. That’s what grace does. This gracious anger has two sides to it: …
Chuck Lawless summarises his own work on expectant versus reactive churches. When I get weary I trend more to the reactive spectrum. There’s a bunch of things that I call my ‘to do’ list. More of them were actioned in my early days at MGPC. Over the last few years the pace has slowed. I’m …
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