I found these six ways of minimizing sin to be very instructive regarding gospel-centered sanctification/mortification of sin. Take a moment and examine your fight against sin, the ways you are prone to minimize sin, and develop an intentional strategy to renounce them. Defending I find it difficult to receive feedback about weaknesses or sin. When [...]
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Six Ways of Minimizing Sin
May 26, 2012The Trellis and the Vine on Gospel Centrality
May 23, 2012A couple of excerpts from the excellent book The Trellis and the Vine on the centrality of the gospel: “Throughout the world, the gospel is spreading, propagating, budding, flowering, bearing fruit. People hear it and by God’s mercy respond and are saved. But it does not stop there. Once the gospel is planted in someone’s life [...]
Life in Gospel Communities
May 22, 2012Fromt the Crowded House Network (Steve Timmis/Tim Chester), here is a great video of what life looks like in a gospel community. HT: Z
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians (Summary)
May 18, 2012I’m not finished with my blog series on annotations of gospel centrality, but I am finished with the book of Colossians. Here’s the blogposts from this book: » Colossians 1:6 » Colossians 1:21-23 » Colossians 1:28-29 » Colossians 2:6-7 » Colossians 2:17 » Colossians 3:1-4 » Colossians 3:5-15 » Colossians 3:16-17 I have attempted to [...]
New PLNTD Audio: Jared Wilson
May 17, 2012In the beginning of April, PLNTD held its first regional training event focused on “Cultivating Gospel Community” in sunny Southwest Florida. We were privileged to have Steve Timmis and Jared Wilson share God’s Word with us during the weekend. These brothers served us incredibly well by speaking plainly about the power of the gospel while [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: Spiritual Disciplines
May 4, 2012So far in this series, I have provided a little background, the triperspectival framework, and the role of gospel forms in the development of the diagram I created to illustrate what I’m calling gospel-centered spiritual formation. Role of Spiritual Disciplines in Gospel-Centered Formation Now we have come to the role of spiritual disciplines in gospel-centered [...]
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians 2:17
May 2, 2012“These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.” Colossians 2:17 The interpretive grid through which we properly understand the world is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Everything was created by Jesus and for Jesus, and in Jesus is everything sustained (Col. 1:16-17). The world has always sought for [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: The Gospel Forms
April 26, 2012At the conclusion of my last post about the triperspectival framework, I mentioned the role of gospel “forms” in the diagram I created to explain gospel-centered spiritual formation. Before I jump into the perspectives individually, I want to explain what I mean by gospel forms and how those forms overlap to give greater gospel focus [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: The Triperspectival Framework
April 25, 2012In my first post, I provided a little background to the development of this paradigm I’ve created, called gospel-centered spiritual formation. I argued that the literature on spiritual disciplines largely does not factor in the gospel, and gospel-centered literature has yet to address the role of spiritual disciplines in the life of a gospel-centered Christian. [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: A Little Background
April 23, 2012I never heard about spiritual disciplines until I took a class on it while in college. In those early years of my spiritual development, I was directed to books like Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline, Donald Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, and Dallas Willard’s The Spirit of the Disciplines. As a lifelong athlete training [...]
Gospel-Shaped Humor
April 19, 2012I found the excerpt below from Keller Quotes to be incredibly insightful. Not to be overly generic, but I think our culture has bought into a lot of humor, whether knowingly or unknowingly, that militates against the gospel and elevates self-righteousness, pride, and personal insecurity. Most of the men my age or younger than me [...]
The Call of Our This Generation
April 16, 2012It has already been said that the sermon below by David Platt is perhaps the greatest missions message ever preached. I was a freshman in college when the buzz about John Piper’s sermon “Doing Missions When Dying Is Gain” filled the campus of University of Mobile. Not long after that, I embarked on my first [...]
Greear on a Gospel-Centered Church
January 30, 2012I 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 [...]
Cultivating 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 [...]
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