I just finished J.D. Greear’s book Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary as part of the Roots Reading Initiative (with PLNTD). His last chapter focuses on the marks of a gospel-centered church, and he provides three of them. They are: 1. In a gospel-centered church, preaching the message of the gospel is the [...]
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Greear on a Gospel-Centered Church
January 30, 2012Cultivating Gospel Communities | PLNTD Conference
January 16, 2012Get all the info here. Register this week for a special opening week rate of just $29. We are only making this rate available to the first 100 who register. I would love for you to this training opportunity on how to cultivate gospel communities on mission from Steve Timmis and Jared Wilson, along with [...]
God & Sinner Reconcile | Stephen Miller
January 16, 2012I have never considered myself an expert on all things musical. I mention what I believe to be good music because of what it does for my soul. With the recovery of the gospel in all its beauty, this movement of God needs gifted men and women to lead us in singing the gospel. Again [...]
The Gospel Prayer
January 5, 2012This month with ROOTS, we are reading Gospel by J.D. Greear. As an outline for his book, J.D. provides four statements in the form of a prayer intended to internalize and rehearse the gospel on a regular basis. Here’s the Gospel Prayer. I encourage you to reflect on these statements and continue to rediscover the [...]
The Outworking of the Gospel [Roots Reading Initiative]
January 4, 2012Last week, we finished the first installment [Nov/Dec 2011] of the Roots Reading Initiative focused on the mission of the church. In this installment, we read What Is the Mission of the Church? by Greg Gilbert and Kevin DeYoung (November) and Everyday Church by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester. With each week, discussion questions are made [...]
Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done = Repent and Believe
December 13, 2011At the very heart of the Lord’s Prayer is the petition, “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Like so many other familiar passages of Scripture, I fear that there are myriads of truths that fail to be apprehended due to our contemptible satisfaction of superficial understanding. Such [...]
Bloodlines Documentary with John Piper
September 30, 2011I recently picked up this book on hard copy as well as on Kindle. Below is an exclusive video documentary featuring John Piper as he walks through his personal story of growing up in the racist South. His personal story boldly champions the transforming power of the gospel and the beauty of racial diversity and [...]
Communities of Light, Part 1 (Biblical Theology)
September 27, 2011God is light. I’m not sure we have probed into the depths of that profound reality. I’m not trying to sound abstract or philosophical. The Bible is clear to explain that God is light (1 John 1:5). He dwells in unapproachable light (1 Tim. 5:16) and is considered as “the Father of lights” (James 1:17). [...]
2011 GCM Collective National Conference Audio
September 22, 2011I’ve attended quite a few conferences the past ten years. Some of them engender hype; others bring in large crowds due to the evangelical celebrity culture. But then on a rare occasion, there will come a conference that surprises you in unexpecting ways. It is not that I had low expectations but that the conference [...]
Gospel-Centered Discipleship Website Is Live
September 21, 2011The new Gospel-Centered Discipleship website is live. Spearheaded by Jonathan Dodson and Winfield Bevins, this website is going to provide a wealth of theologically rich and practically relatable resources on the crux of the Church’s mission, viz., the work of making disciples in and through the power of the gospel. As their website explains, “GCD [...]
Bloodlines by John Piper
September 15, 2011Last night, I picked up on Kindle John Piper’s latest book, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian (foreword by Tim Keller). I have always enjoyed reading works by Piper, but I’m especially interested in this one because of the topic and how it relates to my life and work. There are two parts to the book: [...]
The Gospel Alphabet: B Is for Belief
September 11, 2011A | In his book, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, J.I. Packer has a chapter entitled “The Gospel as of First Importance.” In that chapter, Packer discusses the pastoral and formational applications of the Gospel. Many are familiar with the quote from Tim Keller that “the Gospel is not the ABC’s of [...]
J.I. Packer’s “Three Facets of Faith” or Triperspectival Catechesis
September 2, 2011J.I. Packer, in his excellent book, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, unpacks the practical out workings of the “the glorious Gospel of our blessed God” in what he calls the “three facets of faith.” Here is how Packer explains it: “The essential content of the Faith, then, includes first of all [...]
The Canceling Power of a Divine Kiss
August 29, 2011Yesterday I preached a message entitled “A Celebration of Grace”. It was the conclusion of a 4-part series on grace from passages in the Gospel according to Luke. My final text was a very familiar text to Christians, commonly called the “parable of the prodigal son.” Two particular readings affected me greatly this past week. [...]
Nathan Finn on “The Gospel and Baptist Identity”
August 26, 2011Dr. Nathan Finn has recently completed an excellent blog series entitled “The Gospel and Baptist Identity.” I for one am glad to see the two merged together as it is my hope that the identity of Baptists would fundamentally be characterized by the functional centrality of the gospel. Be sure to check out the blogposts [...]
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