The Cruciformed View of Wisdom and Power Living in a pluralistic society where relativism is the...
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Three Important Reasons To Become A Church Member
“Why become a member of a church, I attend the service isn’t that enough?” This is an actual...
Book Review – Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God’s Word Today
Dozens of preaching books come out every year. Before and during seminary I read at least two...
Book Review – Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive
Churches are dying every day. That isn’t news you’ll read in the latest issue of Time, national or local newspapers but the fact is many churches are dying every day. Many pastors are leaving the ministry every month and every year. What is the Church to do? Should we...
Book Review – The Unfinished Church
Have you ever heard someone say, “I love Jesus, but I hate His church?” Let’s be honest, the church has done some hurtful things to the world in the name of Jesus. Perhaps you’ve been hurt, either in word or deed or by someone at church, or you have painful memories...
Book Review – The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ
While one of the most encouraging trends in recent years has been the resurgence in conversation on the gospel, what has been needed is a book that looks at how the gospel impacts the local church and it’s culture. Thankfully such a book exists now in The Gospel: How...
Book Review – Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion
One of the central issues in the Church and one that we here at Servants of Grace are passionate about is the nature, purpose, and mission of the Church. We spent a whole month looking at this issue and will continue to look at it in the future as the need arises. At...
Book Review – I Am A Church Member: Discovering The Attitude that Makes the Difference
One of the central issues of our day when it comes to the doctrine of the Church is interestingly enough, church membership. Many Christians today struggle with the idea of becoming or even being members of the Church. For some Christians just merely attending Church...
Book Review – Transformational Discipleship: How People Grow
Discipleship is a topic that is much talked about but very rarely understood in the evangelical world today. In the early 1990’s and 2000’s it was popular to talk about discipleship as a conversation divorced from doctrine and theology. When discipleship is taken down...