Is My Life Worthy of God? Four Tests
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Fruit of the Spirit – How We Grow
Fruit of the Spirit - How We Grow
How Can You Tell if a Church Is Gospel-Centered? Start with the Pulpit.
How Can You Tell if a Church Is Gospel-Centered? Start with the Pulpit. YANCEY ARRINGTON The tagline “gospel-centered” has become commonplace in the church-planting world. In many ways, this is a good thing. But we do well to ask: What exactly does the phrase...
True Freedom
True Freedom
Teach One Another
In Colossians 3:16, the Apostle Paul exhorts us with these words, “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” As a...
Your Church Needs You This Sunday | Two Prayers to Prepare for Worship
Your Church Needs You This Sunday Two Prayers to Prepare for Worship Article by Sam Allberry Guest Contributor A pastor once shared with me how he often really feels when he heads into church on a Sunday: he wishes he was doing something else. He was quick to point...
True Freedom
True Freedom
The Golden Rule
This past Sunday, I heard one of the most profound sermons that I have ever heard on the Golden Rule from Luke 6:31, “Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.” That passage in the Message is rendered like this, “Ask yourself what you want other people to...
20 20 Vision
20 20 Vision
Christmas Demands a Reaction
Christmas Demands a Reaction
A Christmas Card from Jesus
A Christmas Card from Jesus
Christmas Promises
Christmas Promises
God Uses Everything – Why Our Suffering Is Never Wasted
God Uses Everything Why Our Suffering Is Never Wasted Article by Vaneetha Rendall Risner Regular Contributor Recently I was hurt by a friend over an insensitive comment she made. My first response was to get upset, and then I began mentally cataloging a list of...
Christmas Now and Once Before
Below is an article that I came across today that has so very much to say about the Christmas season and the tug that we feel from both the Bethlehem stable and the world. It was written ten years ago and originally published int he Yale News of Yale University....
The Past Unwrapped in the Present
The Past Unwrapped in the Present
The Purpose of Christmas
The Purpose of Christmas
With Thankful Hearts
One of the most destructive conflicts in European history was the Thirty Years War, fought between 1618-1648. By 1637 all the pastors of Eilenberg, Germany had either abandoned the city or died of disease, leaving a Lutheran Deacon named Martin Rinkart to care for the...
The Offense of the Cross
The Offense of the Cross