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I’ve been repeatedly struck by how many Christian blog posts recently have focused on the (perceived) shortcomings of other believers. The blogosphere (or at least a small portion of it) has been abuzz recently with discussion about the problems with Dan Sweatt or Mark Driscoll or whomever. Of course in nearly every post there are [...]

This past two weekends in Sunday School, we have studied the Passion Week—the final week of our Savior’s earthly ministry. We noted how roundly Jesus condemned Israel and its leaders for being Israel for the sake of Israel. They longed for God to set them free from pagan oppression and bring in the kingdom He [...]

“The Ingrown Church Leader: God’s Call to Faith and Repentance” (summary)
What is an “ingrown church”? Jack Miller includes the following descriptors: a church that due to a lack of zeal for outreach (p 17) is immobilized (p 16) and not turned toward the world (p 15). Even though this kind of inward-facing church may [...]

The sun rises, the sun sets.  Days, months, and years pass by.  Babies are born, graduations occur, love inflames, careers wind up and back down, bodies tire, and funerals loom.  Such is life and there is a beauty to it.  An allotment.  An appointment.  In the Church, Advent leads to Epiphany to Lent to Easter [...]

If you are not able to attend the Gospel Coalition conference near Chicago over the next few days, be sure to check out the sessions made available online.You can watch each of the main sessions live via streaming video. Or you can download the video or audio of each session within a few days of [...]

The ESV Bible Blog has helpfully integrated the events of the Passion Week with Google Map. Now you can see not only when various events occurred, you can also see where they occurred.
There are 89 total chapters in the four canonical Gospels (Matthew, 28; Mark, 16; Luke, 24; John, 21). Do you know how many [...]

Yesterday our Sunday School class covered the entire Sermon on the Mount. We spent the first 25 minutes going over the background and flow of thought or structure of this most famous of Jesus’ sermons. Then, since Matthew 5-7 is a sermon, we spent the final 25 minutes watching/listening to it as a sermon on [...]

The thesis of Greg Beale’s work, We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry, is “we resemble what we revere, either for ruin or restoration.”  Following Beale’s text, yesterday at church we took a hard look at how Jesus builds on the theme of idolatry in the Gospels through his use of Isaiah [...]

John R. W. Stott makes the following statement in the final chapter on the topic of conversion in Christian Missions in the Modern World, “We can assert without any fear of contradiction that all the converted are regenerate and all the regenerate are converted.”  Having already established the biblical necessity of conversion despite a modern [...]

“A spasm of the ganglions,” thus does one mid-nineteenth century Cornish priest define conversion, according to John R. W. Stott in his work Christian Missions in the Modern World (p. 110).  Needless to say, that is not a very high view of a biblical doctrine, but Stott contends there are reasons for such disdain to [...]

In the August/September issue of First Things, editor Joseph Bottum pens an insightful article entitled, “The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline“. Besides reading it for Bottum’s excellent prose (of which one of my favorite examples is here), it is interesting to get his take on the spiraling plummet [...]

Having completed our road warrior trek to Nyakaliro, we park the dusty Land Cruiser between the church building and the home of Elias and Leah. Jeremy, Nate, and Jordan have already spent a week camped out here, so the children immediately recognize old soccer buddies and crowd around the car with expectant faces. [...]

“Nyakaliro Nights” sounds like a good name for a song or movie, but Nyakaliro is actually the name of a fishing village about two hours from the Howell’s home in Sweya, Tanzania. A thriving church plant is flourishing in this remote community along the shores of Lake Victoria. One of the goals of [...]

This ain’t no cheap seat. I’m sure you’ve got a pretty decent view from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. According to my iMac’s dictionary, Kilimanjaro is “an extinct volcano in northern Tanzania. It has twin peaks, the higher of which, Kibo [Uhuru?] (19,340 feet; 5,895 m), is the highest mountain in Africa.” Jon is standing [...]

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