I’ve already plugged this awesome excerpt of Tim Keller in the past, but it’s worth posting again.
Archive for May 2011
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May 30, 2011Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 12
May 29, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 Part 9 || Part 10 || Part 11 Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith: A sign you’re growing in grace: Like Asaph (Ps 73:15), you restrain your public demonstration of inward pain and rage. A sign you’re growing in grace: People occasionally ask you about the [...]
50¢ Words of the Week, Part 2
May 28, 2011Part 1 || I started a new series on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, called “50¢ Word(s) of the Day”. Here’s the second installment from this past week: Monday: non posse peccare –> not able to sin (the condition of humanity in the final state of glory) Tuesday: beneplacitum Dei –> the good pleasure of God (the ground [...]
John Piper, Rick Warren, and the Purpose Driven Life
May 27, 2011Let’s just pretend for a moment you did not read the title of this blogpost. Let’s pretend that there was an anonymous Christian minister who explicitly affirmed the following: I am passionate about the glory of God above all things. I believe in the absolute sovereignty of God in all things, including sin and tragedy. [...]
Gospel Implications, Part 3
May 26, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 Continuing this great series by Scotty Smith, here is your third installment of 20 tweets on gospel implications for your gospel intake: Gospel Implications: The Lamb HAS triumphed, the Lamb WILL triumph. Say goodbye to hopeless, fearful, selfish living. Gospel Implications: We are “recovering legalists and Pharisees” to the extent we are [...]
Consequences of Meaningless Membership
May 25, 2011Al Jackson, one of the men I esteem highly in the SBC has written about unregenerate church membership in the May-June 2011 IX Marks e-Journal. In particular, he spells out the consequences for meaningless membership. Quoting Vance Havner, he says that “we are many but we are not much.” Jackson writes: The Southern Baptist Convention [...]
Triperspectival Pastoral Priorities and Practices
May 24, 2011Yesterday, Dustin Neeley (who runs Church Planting for the Rest of Us) drew our attention to an interview he did with Mark Dever in which he asked about balancing time between sermon preparation and shepherding people. Here’s the video: I resonate with everything that Dever is saying in this interview. One of the more profitable [...]
Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 11
May 23, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 Part 9 || Part 10 Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith: A sign you’re growing in grace: There are a few people in your life who can ask you anything, and you’ll be honest. A sign you’re growing in grace: In your hierarchy of [...]
50¢ Words of the Week, Part 1
May 22, 2011I started a new series on Twitter this past week, called “50¢ Word(s) of the Day”. Here’s the first installment from this past week: Sunday: membra ecclesiae militantis – members of the church militant Monday: Crede, ut intelligas – Believe in order that you may understand (Augustine on belief & reason) Tuesday: coetus fidelium –> [...]
Gospel Implications, Part 2
May 19, 2011Part 1 || Continuing this great series by Scotty Smith, here is your second installment of 20 tweets on gospel implications for our nourishment: Gospel Implications: Since the Father has lavished his love upon us in Jesus, let’s not hoard it. Love boldly today. Gospel Implications: Since Jesus has worked for us, we must rest [...]
What Part of the Gospel Is Optional?
May 18, 2011Biblical Church Leadership
May 17, 2011From IX Marks.
Signs You Are Growing in Grace, Part 10
May 16, 2011Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 || Part 8 Part 9 Your weekly installment of 20 grace tweets from Scotty Smith: A sign you’re growing in grace: When telling your story, you end up talking about Jesus more than you. A sign you’re growing in grace: You long for your heart to come more fully alive [...]
Why Biblical Theology Matters for Church Leaders
May 15, 2011Dustin Neeley recently sat down with Mark Dever and asked about the importance of biblical theology in the life and work of pastors and church planters. I appreciated Dever’s response.
Gospel Implications, Part 1
May 11, 2011Scotty Smith has started a new series of tweets focusing on gospel implications. I’m pumped, and yes, I will be compiling them just like his other series on signs you are growing in grace. Here is your first installment of 20 tweets from Scotty on gospel implications: Gospel Implications: Jesus’ imputed righteousness demolishes our hope [...]
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