The latest 9Marks newsletter features the local church.
Especially interesting was a Bible study class “Living As A Church” on what it means and how to live together as a local church.
I also enjoyed Kevin McFadden’s review of Dan Kimball’s book, They Like Jesus But Not the Church.
To read the whole newsletter go HERE.
It is one thing as Christians to believe, and to say, we must love others, but it may be a bit more of a challenge at times to put up with the sin, failings and faults of others, especially those closest to us. The following advice was given to a friend by Fenelon on why and [...]
“Within the community of the gathered church, then, people need to be saved, healed, brought to wholeness in every area of their lives. But before there can be a coming to wholeness, certain guarantees must be made to people. Otherwise they will not risk themselves to be open with us enough to receive healing.
The minimal [...]
“Love, acceptance, forgiveness – those three things are absolutely essential to any ministry that will consistently bring people to maturity and wholeness. If the Church is to be the force for God in the world that it should be, it must learn to love people, accept them and forgive them.”
(Jerry Cook & Stanley Baldwin, Love, [...]
On his blog, Denny Burk links to all the audio from the recent conference at Southeastern Seminary where one of the speakers was Mark Driscoll.
Denny writes,
Driscoll is a solid inerrantist, complementarian, Calvinist evangelical. In his message, Driscoll is careful to differentiate himself from the Emergent Village wing of the emerging church, which is in fact [...]
As the following list reveals, the Bible has much to say about tithing and stewardship.
Genesis 14:18-20 (ESV) And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; and [...]
In his book Evangelical Feminism, Wayne Grudem describes the path toward liberalism which many main-line denominations have already chosen:
“There is tremendous pressure in present-day culture to deny male leadership in the home and the church . . . When that happens, little by little, step by step, colleges and churches and denominations start to slide toward [...]
De Regno Christi, a new web discussion site to advance discussion and awareness of Christ’s reign over the nations, will be discussing the Federal Vision from Sept. 17- October 5.
Check it out HERE
Steven L. Childers writes about the transforming power of the Gospel:
“In the preface to his book, True Spirituality, the late Christian leader and author Francis Schaeffer referred to a problem that led him to a point of great spiritual crisis in his life. He called it the “problem of reality” (1971:i). After being in the [...]
“In the gospel is found the bread of life for souls ready to die of hunger, and the waters of life for the thirsty, and an invitation for all such to come forward and receive of the blessings of the covenant freely, as a gift, without money and without price. It is to sinners who [...]
