Posted in Church, Pastors, Prayer, Worship on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Dever on church worship service:
When you last sat in church, how much did you examine the words of prayers you heard? How much did you think about the words of the songs you sang? Or how about the words you heard from Scripture? Does it really matter to you if what you said or [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Pastors, Postmodernism, Preachers/Preaching on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Personal and Private Truth
Continuing from Part 1 and Part 2 of my interactions with David F. Wells’ Above All Earthly Pow’rs.
Wells observes that postmodernists personalize and privatize truth. He notes:
Truth in this postmodern and individualistic context becomes entirely private. What is true for one, therefore, may not be true for another; what is preference for [...]
Posted in Church, Pastors on August 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you have read my personal blog recently, you are aware we as a body experienced the loss of a 15-month old boy recently from SIDS. He died on Friday and was buried Tuesday morning. God overruled our meal plans and brought nearly double the people to the memorial service than what we had planned [...]
Posted in Church, Evangelism, Humility, Pagan Invasion, Prayer, Theology on August 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Regarding my previous post “Paganism in the Church” one of our readers raised this question:
What do you mean by “paganistic worldviews”, and in what specific ways are these worldviews embraced by “many” Midwesterners?
I think it’s a good question and I want to reply it here since this can benefit everyone. First of all, to borrow [...]
Posted in Church, Church Membership, Tozer on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A. W. Tozer on church:
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
Posted in Church, Church History, Theology on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Philip Schaff (1819-1893) wrote the following on the authority and sufficiency of the Bible:
In these inspired writings we have, not indeed an equivalent, but a reliable substitute for the personal presence and the oral instruction of Christ and his apostles. The written word differs from the spoken only in form; the substance is the same, [...]
Posted in Church, Church History, Theology on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bonhoeffer on cheap grace:
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheap-jacks’ wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices… Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without [...]
Posted in Biblical Studies, Church, Theology on August 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hey all,
Thought I’d try my hand at blogging over here for once. I appreciate Jim giving me the opportunity to do so.
Years ago I was asked by a young preteen boy from town if we were still churching over at our church. I am grateful that his question still hangs in the back [...]
Posted in Church, Pagan Invasion, Pastors, Preachers/Preaching on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
People in the Midwest (especially, in my neck of the woods where I minister) pride themselves that they are not anything like the people in other parts of the country or other parts of the world. I would say, that all depends on what you’re talking about. But when it comes to fundamental nature of [...]
Posted in Church History, Church Membership, Pastors, Puritans on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From church’s standpoint there is wisdom for taking time to get to know individuals before permitting them to join the church. As experiences tell us it is much easier to allow people to join the church than removing people (though the latter part is hardly seen in churches today). Hence, get to know potential applicants. [...]
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