Balanced Christian teaching should invoke three areas, respecting their relative order, while maintaining the necessity of all three to be active. The three are: what Jesus has done for us and to us; what Jesus enables and empowers us to do; and what we must do as our response to his work for us and …
A reflection on life, human expectation, personal growth, and what matters above all from Jean Williams. An excerpt: God is the author of my story. And he’s a far better author than I could ever be. I wouldn’t have written so much hardship into the recent pages of our life. But as I look back, …
From an article on the St Helen’s blog: We should walk into church with something of the following attitude. 1. Walk into church… as partners in the gospel As Charlie preached to us from Philippians, he showed us that Paul was thankful for the Philippians partnership in the gospel (Philippians 1v5). And as he did …
Randy Alcorn wonders why Christians seem so unhappy, and offers thoughts on why this should not be so. There seem to be a lot of outraged Christians around, and they seem to be outraged in mirror to the culture of outrage that permeates public discourse. …I see too many long-faced Christians who seem continuously angry, …
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