Don Carson ends his classic book A Call to Spiritual Reformation with this prayer. It is a great prayer worthy of meditation and adaptation in our own prayer lives! OH LORD, REVIVE YOUR CHURCH!
And now, Lord God, I ask your blessing on all who read this book, for without it there will be no real [...]
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A prayer for reformation!
Posted in Christian life, Prayer, church, tagged Prayer, Reformation, revial on August 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Is congregational singing dying?
Posted in church, tagged congregational singing on July 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The 9 Marks blog points us to an interesting article over at Matthias Media’s Briefing called, “The Slow Death of Congregational Singing.”
I was at a convention recently, seated near the rear of the auditorium. The music team at the front were ‘leading’ (and I use that word advisedly) and we were singing. Well, we were [...]
Are you an expositional listener?
Posted in church, tagged church, preaching on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
In his new book Marks of a Healthy Church Member, Thabiti Anyabwile writes that a healthy church member will be an expositional listener. What’s that, you ask? An expositional listener is one who listens for “the meaning of the passage of Scripture that is being preached and accepting that meaning as the main idea to [...]
Do you love the church?
Posted in church, tagged church on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
At our church we are studying the distinctives of a Baptist church during our summer Sunday school series. It has been a good study so far on the doctrine of the church even as we have discussed such issues as Biblical authority, regenerate church membership, and church discipline.
What is your view of the church? Do [...]
Preaching truth, practicing discipline
Posted in church, tagged church discipline, mccheyne on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
“When I first entered upon the work of the ministry among you, I was exceedingly ignorant of the vast importance of church discipline. I thought that my great and almost only work was to pray and preach. I saw your souls to be so precious, and the time so short, that I devoted all my [...]
Another “accuser of the brothers”
Posted in church on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
In Zechariah 3 we see Satan accusing Joshua, the high priest and Jesus Christ defending Joshua. In Revelation 12:10, Satan is called “the accuser of the brothers.” Often though there are other “accusers of the brothers”–us. When we slander, gossip, or point out another’s fault without compassion and care, we fall into a prideful attitude [...]
The church’s greatest days
Posted in church on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
What have ben the eras of the Church’s greatest influence? What have been the moments of its most powerful impact on the world? Not the epochs of its visible might and splendor; not the age of succeeding Constantine, when Christianity became imperialistic, and all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them seemed [...]
