Kevin DeYoung provides more detail about congregational prayer services. At MGPC we swiped the idea of first Sunday of the month evening services given over to prayer from an earlier post by DeYoung. I tend to get stuck in ruts, so this post which suggests variations of prayer content is very helpful for me. It …
A post about growing a heart that genuinely is joyful when hearing about other churches that are seeing more fruit than the one you belong to. This is hard. For me, anyway. We strive to see fruitfulness in our mission and ministry, but when others seem to have blessings that we’d like to experience there’s …
Helpful thoughts from Brian Croft on intentionally evaluating worship services. The primary role of service review is two fold: First, service review is a safeguard to maintain biblical fidelity within the public gatherings of the church. Secondly, service review is a tool to cultivate the skill of giving and receiving sincere, helpful, and godly criticism, …
David Cook speaks about preaching from John’s Gospel. Topics covered include preaching that both evangelises and informs, textual expository preaching, how and when to focus on evangelistic aspects of the text, and more. David concludes speaking about the heart-warming encouragement congregations of Christians receive when they sit under preaching that has an evangelistic focus. From …
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