Galatians 6:1, “Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.” Life in the church is often messy. The church, as one pastor said, is a hospital for sinners and not a museum of saints. […]
Doing Spiritual Good Discipling is deliberately doing spiritual good to someone so that he or she will be more like Christ. Discipleship is the term I use to describe our own following Christ. Discipling is the subset of that, which is helping someone else follow Christ. The Christian life is the discipled life and the
THE IRISH AND BAPTIST IDENTITY The Irish Baptists inform our understanding of what it means to be Baptists because they have an undisputed beginning. One of the challenges for Baptists is to pinpoint our beginning. Baptist historians have struggled to identify when and where the movement actually began. Some have tried to link a trail
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Sometimes worship comes by way of weeping in the pew. When the broken enter the sanctuary of God on Sunday mornings, they do so, perhaps, with every fiber of their being tempting them to withdrawal. They drag their grief, depression, and sorrow behind them like a ball and chain, plodding along to their seats with
Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control; against such things there is no law.” My roommate and I decorated our college dormitory hallway with pictures of fruit using these familiar verses as a theme to welcome freshman girls to their new home. Imagine
Who doesn’t love a good cross-over? Three different podcasts come together for one giant cross-over! Amy and Michelle from A Word Fitly Spoken joined Lauren from Tulips & Honey as well as Emily from The Aquila & Pricilla Hour. The ladies make up four different generations and discuss Biblical discipleship from a woman’s standpoint. It
On today’s Equipping You in Grace Show, Dave Jenkins and Dr. Derek Thomas talk about the role Calvin’s Institutes has played in Reformed theology, Calvin and the book of Job, the doctrine of providence, and why we the Church needs more pastor-scholars like Calvin, along with his edited volume with John Tweedale, John Calvin for
As a parent with young children, it’s no easy feat to get to church on time. This is especially true when it’s also your son’s birthday; you’re trying to keep the house clean for friends coming over later in the day; your spouse has already left for a meeting before church, and it happens to
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