If you're new here to Servants of Grace, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I think the current “gospel-centered” movement is one of the best things to happen to the church in a long time. The push for more expository preaching that grounds every imperative in the indicatives of the gospel–this is important. For too long the Church has preached a gospel of moralism, of legalism, of...

On April 26th, 2012, I had the opportunity to teach at the small group I attend through my local church Sovereign Grace Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho. The teaching went well and the Lord blessed our time in the Word of God. As I was reflecting on this event, I wanted to share some thoughts from this experience with you. While I realize some people take a full manuscript with them when they preach, I am not one of those guys. I take an outline...

The belief that professing Christians should gather together as members of a local Church in is waning many sectors of Christianity today. Some feel that faith shouldn’t be “institutionalized” and should be a private matter between individuals, not something to be experienced in community. Here are five reasons why I feel Christians should be members of a local church. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but these reasons give Christians...

Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” In a fairly recent book titled The Interaction of Law and religion (Nashville: Abingdon, 1974), Harold J. Berman, professor of law at Harvard University has developed a significant thesis. He notes that Western culture has had a massive loss of confidence in law and in religion. One of the most...

Your Ministry is not your identity by Dr. Paul David Tripp http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2012/05/13/your-ministry-is-not-your-identity/ Leading Muslims to Jesus Questions to Consider by The Gospel Coalition http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2012/05/13/leading-muslims-to-jesus-questions-to-consider/ A Critical Mind Vs A Critical spirit by Trevin...

Arthur W. Pink, from The Attributes of God: The “god” of this twentieth century no more resembles the Supreme Sovereign of Holy Writ than does the dim flickering of a candle the glory of the midday sun. The “god” who is now talked about in the average pulpit, spoken of in the ordinary Sunday School, mentioned in much of the religious literature of the day, and preached in most of the so-called Bible Conferences is the figment of...