Charles Spurgeon spoke of a message “which weighed on him” that should weight heavily on us. Hear his impassioned plea: “I plead this day for those who cannot plead for themselves, namely, the great outlying masses of the heathen world. Our existing pulpits are tolerably well supplied, but we need men who will build on [...]
Archive for October 2009
Who Will Go? A Great Commission Plea from the Prince of Preachers
October 26, 2009Our Adoption in Christ – New T4A e-Book
October 22, 2009A couple of weeks ago, our friends over at Together for Adoption (T4A) published their first e-book called Our Adoption in Christ: What It Means for Us and for Orphans. They write: This book was written to equip churches theologically in the areas of orphan care and earthly adoption. We believe that robust theology produces [...]
Homogeneous Community vs. Gospel Community
October 21, 2009One of the undercurrent movements of evangelical renewal in local churches has been the rise of missional communities. These small communities are distinct from your typical home groups or small-groups because what unites them and defines them is a common mission. I resonate with this kind of missiologically-informed structuring of the ekklesia scattered as those [...]
Plough Deep In Me
October 18, 2009Lord Jesus, give me a deeper repentance, a horror of sin, a dread of its approach. Help me chastely to flee it and jealously to resolve that my heart shall be Yours alone. Give me a deeper trust, that I may lose myself to find myself in You, the ground of my rest, the spring [...]
Heaven – Home of Gospel-Embracing Repenters
October 13, 2009Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. Because heaven is a prepared place, our Christian lives should be characterized by rejoicing and anticipating being with the Lord. Because heaven is for a prepared people our Christian lives should be characterized by repentance and turning away from ourselves. Therefore, the Christian life is both [...]
Jesus is my life.
October 12, 2009From Passion 2010:
Repentance must keep pace
October 10, 2009“With every increase of mercy you receive from God there will be an accompanying increase of responsibility. . . . As you grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and receive more and more of His mercies with each passing day, your repentance must keep pace. Any failure here is [...]
Repentance is perpetual
October 9, 2009“[Repentance] is perpetual. . . . The Christian is a new person in Christ, but he is imperfectly renewed. He has died to sin and has been raised to new life. But this mortification and vivification continue throughout the whole course of his life on earth. We are no longer what we once were, but [...]
Incarnational Ministry
October 9, 2009Here is a great testimony and picture of incarnational ministry–having a presence among the people who are seeking to reach through dwelling in their context and telling them the good news of the kingdom. Contrasted to the evangelical ghetto fostered by the fundamentalism of separatists, the missional mindset sends us to the ghettos of the [...]
We are not antinomians . . . we have something to do – repent.
October 8, 2009“Repentance is necessary for God’s own people, who have a real work of grace. They must offer up a daily sacrifice of tears. The Antinomians hold that when any come to be believers, they have a writ of ease, and there remains nothing for them now to do but to rejoice. Yes, they have something [...]
Repentance and the Glory of God
October 8, 2009Romans 3:23 is a verse that man Christians should be familiar with–”For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Typically, this verse is spoken to emphasize the universal nature of sin and man’s need for rescue, and rightly so. But rarely if ever does the last phrase receive much attention. Sin [...]
True Repentance: A Wound That Bleeds Till Glory
October 7, 2009“[Repentance] is not a transient action, as Papists and some ignorant creatures imagine, as if a sigh for sin, an act of sorrow for it, a confession of it with a ‘God be merciful to me a sinner,’ were repentance. No, no; these may be acts of repentance while they proceed from a truly penitent [...]
The Need for Ongoing Repentance
October 6, 2009“Since believers are not perfected in this life and the flesh relentlessly assaults the Spirit, there is need for continual repentance subsequent to conversion. . . . Ongoing repentance in the Christian life involves sorrow for sin, a deliberate turning from sin, honest confession of known sins (1 John 1:8-9; James 5:16), making restitution wherever [...]
Repentance won’t be regular if the gospel isn’t central
October 6, 2009For the past couple of months, I have been focusing on the functional centrality of the gospel. Tim Keller rightly argues, “The gospel is not just the A-B-C-‘s but the A to Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all [...]
Our repentance has to be enlarged
October 6, 2009“We need to realize that while God’s acceptance of each Christian believer is perfect from the start, our repentance always needs to be extended further as long as we are in this world. Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to [...]
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