Death: J. C. Ryle tells us what we need when we die.
Sloth: John Ortberg writes, “Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done —like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.” (HT: Josh Harris, see Issac Watts poem on sloth here).
Nathan Busenitz wonders “how emergent was [...]
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On death, sloth, and emerging
Posted in church, time management on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rapid change, for young and old, persecution today
Posted in church, current events, persecuted church on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been reading and thinking about:
Watch how fast the world is changing (buckle your seat belts)
For the young and old: from a wise pastor in another century!
Yes, persecution and suffering for Christ still occurs today–this is real-time!
Seeker-driven movement heads south
Posted in Missions, church on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Seeker-sensitive churches arrive big-time in Brazil. The New York Times reports,
SÃO PAULO: The atmosphere was electric at Reborn in Christ Church on “Extreme Fight” night. Churchgoers dressed in jeans and sneakers, many with ball caps turned backward, lined a makeshift boxing ring to cheer on bare-chested jujitsu fighters.
They screamed when a fan favorite, Fabio Buca, [...]
Why attend church faithfully?
Posted in church on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jim Wilkerson provides 10 answers to this question:
1. It demonstrates our desire to fellowship with Christ in love (Rev.3:20) who instituted particular churches for his glory (Rev.1:17-20).
2. It demonstrates our desire to follow the apostolic example (Acts 2:41ff) and the commands of Christ in love (Heb.10:25; Jn.14:15, 21).
3. It demonstrates our desire to worship the [...]
What drove the NT church?
Posted in church, tagged church, macarthur, Shepherds Conference on August 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a message at the 2008 Shepherds Conference, John Macarthur preached from Acts and gave this overview of the NT church that experienced God’s incredible blessing. They had these characteristics:
A transcendent message
A regenerate congregation
A valiant perseverance
An evident purity
A qualified leadership
You won’t find too much emphasis on this in the modern church growth movement–but we dare [...]
The church’s worst enemy
Posted in church on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Iain Murray paraphrasing Lloyd-Jones in his biography of Lloyd-Jones (vol. 1):
“The church’s worst enemy is the man of little faith within its membership, not the faithless man of the world.” (p. 185).
(HT: Pure Church)
The drive thru church
Posted in church on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I was preaching about how worship is being downgraded today in many ways and, sort of off the cuff, said that I wouldn’t be surprised if one day someone invents a drive-thru church. Well, here is a drive-in church that is not too far off from what I had envisioned–I just didn’t know it [...]
Bricks are for buildings
Posted in church, relationships, tagged church membership on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Braun talks about bricks, buildings, and the church:
“Four bricks hide behind my tool shed. The shed sits on the edge of the woods so leaves hide the bricks. If you weren’t looking, you wouldn’t notice them: just a few bricks settling into moist, black soil under brown oak leaves.
If I picked up one of [...]
The case against the R-rated church
Posted in church on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phil Johnson talks about a recent interview he conducted with John MacArthur on the loss of evangelical innocence as churches become more and more like the world. As Phil prepared for the interview, he was struck with three facts which he discusses briefly. Here are some excerpts:
One: This is a huge and widespread problem.
Two: Modesty [...]
The Rape of Solomon’s Song
Posted in church, discernment on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John MacArthur has published a blog series on a disturbing trend in pulpits today–inappropriate language in the pulpit. Phil Johnson dealt with this at the Shepherd’s Conference this year as well. Looks like an interesting and more than likely highly controversial series over the next few days, In the first article John writes:
The language Scripture [...]
