Liturgical Folk is “a music project that centers around Nelson Koscheski’s religious poems set to Ryan Flanigan’s folk tunes.”
Let Us Be Known By Our Love is a track from their third release Crumbs From The Table.
Liturgical Folk is “a music project that centers around Nelson Koscheski’s religious poems set to Ryan Flanigan’s folk tunes.”
Let Us Be Known By Our Love is a track from their third release Crumbs From The Table.
Derek Thomas on the mark of Christian authenticity: our secret life.
For those whose calling involves public expressions of the Christian life, the challenge is to live as a disciple of Jesus when people can’t see us.
From the article:
Six times in the Sermon on the Mount, alluding to three distinct exercises, Jesus employs the term secret:
- Give “in secret…and your Father who sees in secret will reward you” (Matt. 6:4).
- Pray “in secret…and your Father who sees in secret will reward you” (v. 6).
- Fast “in secret…and your Father who sees in secret will reward you” (v. 18).
The Sermon on the Mount is addressing the issue of authenticity. Just how genuine is our relationship with the Lord Jesus? It is altogether possible to practice an outward display of piety—to “talk the talk”—without demonstrating any inner reality of godliness. This is true of every professing Christian, and it is especially true of those engaged in Christian ministry.
Read the whole post at Ligonier Blog.
Having preached through Psalms and now approaching the end of John’s gospel on Sunday nights at MGPC over the last six or so years, it will soon be time to commit to something new.
This article by Oli Tucker surveys a web application that hosts recorded sermons and discovers which books of the Bible have the most sermons preached from them.
It’s no surprise that nineteen most popular books are from the New Testament, but there are some interesting observations.
The types of churches that use the hosting site are more likely to be committed to sequential expository preaching rather than topical or lectionary texts, so it points out some common emphases in the conservative evangelical culture, as well as some areas that can be over looked.
As evangelical churches skew toward preaching entry-level material in topical guise I’d only expect these sorts of differences to increase. The whole counsel of God becoming the curated counsel of God, so to speak.
From the article:
As with many things in life and ministry we do, at times, need our hands holding over the fire even when it comes to preaching the whole counsel of God and preaching Christ from all the Scriptures. I guess the question this exercise has exposed is: do we know enough to be sure we are actually doing that, and therefore serve our churches well?
Read the article at Strand Blog.
The nature of the pastoral role is defined by the Bible.
The cultural context in which the pastoral role is expressed is changing. Rapidly.
Canoeing The Mountains by Tod Bolsinger is a book that addresses the challenge of change.
It even has a study guide. It must be practical.
