Come People Of The Risen King and Jesus Shall Reign Where’er The Sun are the songs of preparation. After the call to worship, our prayer of adoration and confession will thank God for drawing us into His presence through Jesus, and confess our inclination to invent actions for ourselves to access the grace that Jesus …
From H.B. Charles Jr: Brothers, churches are not stepping-stones. It is wrong to pastor a church looking out the window for a bigger or better opportunity to come a long. The souls over which the Lord has made you an overseer deserve your best. For that matter, the Lord demands your best. Be faithful right …
An article proposing that Christians sing the same songs of praise to God that Jesus sang: How interested would you be if archaeologists unearthed a hymnbook embossed with the name, “Jesus of Nazareth?” Overlooking the anachronism for a moment, wouldn’t “Jesus’ hymnbook” be immediately republished and rocket to the best-seller lists? Wouldn’t those songs find …
Thanks to Ray Ortlund for posting this quote from Lesslie Newbigin: “There has been a long tradition which sees the mission of the Church primarily as obedience to a command. It has been customary to speak of ‘the missionary mandate.’ This way of putting the matter is certainly not without justification, and yet it seems …
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