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“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 [...]

I cannot resist the temptation to comment on a singing sensation sweeping the internet this week.  On the show “Britain’s Got Talent” (a Simon Cowell produced UK version of American Idol), Susan Boyle–a frumpy, middle-aged, unemployed resident of a small village in Scotland–made her singing debut before a hostile audience and three judges, including the [...]

Today is a special day in my family. It’s not only the birthday of one of my sisters, it’s also the birthday of my great-, great-, great-, great-, great-grandfather. His name was Dozier Thornton.
Dozier was born April 14, 1755 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. From what we can tell, he served in the North Carolina Militia [...]

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 [...]

The centrality of the cross in biblical theology.  Three lectures by Graeme Goldsworthy for your listening pleasure.  Also, Paul Tripp.  HT: JT.
On short-term mission trips.  An excerpt:
Short-term missions often seek short-term results. And they aren’t financially efficient. Expending thousands of dollars to send people with no cross-cultural training or language skills to a foreign country [...]

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 [...]

In July 2008 the musical team at Sovereign Grace Ministries (lead by Bob Kauflin) released an entire CD of psalm settings in a contemporary style.
Revisiting Monday’s post (“Psalmic Imagery”), here are the lyrics and audio of their remix of Psalm 130 (“Out of the Depths”).
Out of the depths, O Lord, I cry to You
When I [...]