Our local newspaper, The Border Watch featured articles on euthanasia over a couple days a week or so ago. Here’s a piece I submitted for publication on behalf of the local churches, which appeared today. It is intentionally a response to articles and positions expressed in the newspaper, and is meant to be a response …
One of my facebook friends posted a brief quote which mentioned that Jesus’ disciples have scars and stories. Tonight this poem from Amy Carmichael turned up in my feedreader courtesy of Chris Castaldo. Our scars are not the reason we’re redeemed. But every redeemed follower of Christ will their scars. No Scar? Hast thou no …
Preachers should take more satisfaction from their sermons being a means of change in people’s lives rather than people simply being able to remember their detail. Now this shouldn’t be seen as an either/or situation. Hopefully we’re striving for a both/and. But pastors should be more encouraged about the steady growth of a local church …
An excerpt from an article about compiling modern hymnals includes these observations about a decision to omit In Christ Alone. The position that Jesus died experiencing the judgment of God on our behalf is sometimes portrayed as being one among many motifs of atonement represented in the Scriptures. Except that when varying motifs of atonement …
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