Octavius Winslow, perhaps the best devotional writer you’ll ever read, communicates truth that provoke and stir up affections for Jesus in such encouraging ways. This is a recent example from his Morning Thoughts: The Spirit of Christ is an active, benevolent Spirit. It bore the Savior, when He was in the flesh, from country to [...]
Archive for December 2010
The Spirit of Christ Is a Missionary Spirit
December 7, 2010Tim Chester on Assessing Gospel Communities
December 6, 2010One of the recent projects I’ve been working on is development assessment metrics for our church’s growth groups and their leaders. Our hope is that through these groups, our body will growth in the areas of gospel, community, and mission. So I have been working to create a metric for evaluating our groups on various [...]
Burk Parsons on Truly Reformed
December 5, 2010Burk Parsons: At its core, Christian theology is a theology of grace. One of the primary distinctions of Christian theology is the doctrine of grace, which pervades every area of our faith and life. Throughout the centuries of history, Christians have testified to this truth. When Paul, in the first century, and the Reformers, in [...]
Sinclair Ferguson on Union with Christ
December 4, 2010The doctrine of union with Christ has to be my favorite meditation because it lies at the very heart of the gospel. Very few people alive today can preach with such simplicity and clarity as Sinclair Ferguson. And at the 2010 Basics Conference held at Parkside Church (where Alistair Begg is senior pastor), the two [...]
O Holy Night – Shane and Shane
December 3, 2010Love the rawness of this video. Hate that it was cut off before the song was finished. Check it.
Hope Loves Best to Live There Most
December 3, 2010Thomas Brooks, in his amazingly encouraging book, Heaven on Earth, writes about the nature of the Christian hope. He explains that the first property of our hope is that it “elevates and raises the heart to live above, where its treasure is.” He adds: This hope is from above, and it makes the heart to live [...]
Where in the world are the Christians?
December 2, 2010So check it. ”The brothers” took Paul by night from the mad mob rioting at the house of Jason in Thessalonica (Acts 17:10). Surely that was a rather traumatic moment. This landed him in Berea where Paul, undeterred by the riots in the previous city, kept doing what he had been doing–preaching Christ. The mob [...]
The Crisis in My County
December 2, 2010Lee County, Florida is the county of my residence. It has also been dubbed the “foreclosure capital of the country.” I came here in summer of 2008 never having heard or seen a foreclosure in my life to now seeing front yards either looking like a jungle or a yard sale put on the banks [...]
YO! It’s the Heidelberg Catechism!
December 1, 2010Curt “Voice” Allen chopped it up for Kevin DeYoung, author of The Good News We Almost Forgot: Rediscovering the Gospel in a 16th Century Catechism. This song is the fruit of a challenge pitched by C.J. Mahaney to come up with a song about the Heidelberg Catechism from the NEXT 2010 Conference (download MP3). Check [...]
Alabama Baptist Resolution on Gluttony and Self-Control
December 1, 2010It’s no secret that Southern Baptists don’t like alcohol. As someone who has never had a beverage alcohol in my life, I have been quite ashamed and disappointed by the fundamentalism that has elevated drinking wine to that of biblical orthodoxy. Moreover, with dozens of resolutions coming out in my lifetime, folks have wondered why [...]
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