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• The Four Things Every Church Needs to Do

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 463
  After participating in a variety of church meetings over the years, I wanted to share a little theory I’ve been working on based on some experiences, some ongoing thoughts, and some conversations. I don’t want this to devolve into whining or castigating everyone who doesn’t meet whatever my standard may be. ...
  4 days ago

• Dealing with Racial Insensitivity: Becoming Catalysts for Reconciliation

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 463
  Yesterday’s post brought up a lot of great discussion in the comment section that serves God’s Kingdom and Christian unity. I’m about to wrap up a series of posts from the book of Romans, and it’s apparent in that book that in bringing salvation to all through Christ, God was also reconciling two races or ...
  1 week ago

• Glorifying The Football Instead Of The Quarterback

  
  The Cruciform Life Blog — Authority: 400
  “What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.”  (1 Corinthians 3:5-7, ESV)We’ve been studying 1 Corinthians in ...
  1 week ago

• Luther and Media

  
  Reformed Forum — Authority: 522
  Given that Reformation Day is near, we thought it would be time to focus our attention on the monk with the mallet.  Carl Trueman , Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary speaks about Martin Luther and media.  Luther’s is an ...
  2 weeks ago

• When We Should Not Debate Theology

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 463
  I recently finished studying the book of Romans, and I can’t shake Romans 14, as well as a few other related verses where Paul tells the Romans to stop fighting over peripheral matters. The challenge it seems is that others would not agree with his assessment that issues such as Jewish laws and customs were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Church Membership

  
  Reformed Forum — Authority: 522
  The Christ the Center panel met with Dr. Guy Waters, associate professor of NT at RTS/Jackson, about the importance of membership in a local congregation. The biblical basis for church membership was explored along with its connection to mutual support, discipline and observance of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. ...
  3 weeks ago

• For the World – NWBA Considers GC Churches

  
  The Edge of the Inside — Authority: 123
  N.T. Wright suggests the Church, and so its people, should be for the world today in the same way Jesus was for Israel. Now that does not mean Jesus was not for the world. What it does imply is that in its proper context Messiah was for Israel. Situated in such a context the corollary would fit Wright’s framework. ...
  4 weeks ago

• 5 Small Group DEADLY Landmines

  
  BRYANLOPEZ.COM — Authority: 128
  RESURGENCE put up these great warnings today. We all need to be on guard for all of these deadly problems: 1. They become a gossip group. Small groups are not a place to talk about others; rather they should be a safe place that is free from gossip and condemnation. People who attend a small group should feel free ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Humility We Need: Playing a Small Part Well

  
  :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: — Authority: 463
  A thought crossed my mind once. I shooed it away. Then my father-in-law mentioned a passage from the Bible related to that thought. I pondered it a bit and thought it was a nice idea. Then I looked at that passage again a year or so later, and it blew my mind. It’s John 3:27-30. To this John replied, "A man ...
  4 weeks ago

• Christian Women With Weave, Was Your Hair Offered To Idols?

  
  Jesus Christ Is Lord — Authority: 121
  Let us remember the verdict of the Jerusalem council of Acts 15 where the Jewish Christians decided the guidelines for sanctification and holy living for Gentile Christians. Consider this verse : “ That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Post-Mortem Baptism?

  
  Christians in Context: from orthodoxy to orthopraxy. — Authority: 127
  Heres a not so hypothetical scenario for our readers to chew on; its a situation Ive been asked to consider in my new ministry role for the upcoming year. Lets suppose you serve as one of the on-call Chaplains at a major university hospital; you see many very sick and dying patients everyday, along with their ...
  6 weeks ago

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