Real-Life Echoes of the Story of Christ
Here's a model of how to write and deliver a speech...especially for you High School and college kids. ...
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Paul appeals to the Christian's vertical experience with God through Jesus Christ, and instructs them to allow that experience to drive them to prefer one another in love....
Sermon Summary - Christian Suffering - Philippians 1:29
Five Biblical reasons why God ordains suffering: 1) suffering deepens faith, 2) suffering increases your experience of glory in eternity, 3) God uses the suffering of some to help others, 4) sufferings carry the gospel of Christ's sufferings, 5) the gospel's beauty is made clear through suffering...
What to Say to Non-Committal Church Attenders
Jonathan Leeman writes, "Joe has attended your church for about a year. He says he's a Christian. But he has not joined. Should you encourage him to join? How?"...
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I hope we at SFG are finding Packer's words to be true. He writes, [We can] correct woolliness of view as to what Christian commitment involves, by stressing the need for constant meditation on the four gospels, over and above the rest of our Bible reading: for gospel study enables us both to keep our Lord in clear view and to hold before our minds the relation...
Keep ReadingChristopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
Hitchens was one of two people that I made sure to listen to once a week when he was interviewed on the radio for ten minutes. I have always found him intellectually stimulating. I love to listen to thinkers...even when I disagree with them. Justin Taylor writes, "He was a brilliant and entertaining man. He was enormously gifted, and in his final years he took those gifts ...
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Why We Need More 'Chaplains' and Fewer Leaders: What's a pastor for?
Why We Need More 'Chaplains' and Fewer Leaders What's a pastor for? I found this article in "Christianity Today" penetrating....
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Dr. David Powlison - On feeling "detached from God" from CCEF on Vimeo....
Keep ReadingConfessions of a Former Apollinarian
Trevin Wax writes, ''No, I was never excommunicated. No one ever threatened me with pitchforks and fire. In fact, no one was more surprised to learn about my heresy than I was."...
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