In the coming weeks, I will be sharing about a new reading initiative out of the PLNTD Network for planters and pastors alike. Our first reading project will be reading two new and important contributions to the subject of the mission of the church. The first one is the sequel to Total Church by Steve [...]
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Interview with Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert on the Mission of the Church
October 4, 2011Categories: Interviews, Missional, Social Reform
Tags: Greg Gilbert, Kevin DeYoung, Mission of the church, Missional
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True Social Justice
November 30, 2010HT :: My man Charlie Mitchell
Categories: Social Reform
Tags: Def Poetry Jam, Eric Vaughn, Jesus, Social Justice
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Mark Dever and Jim Wallis on Gospel and Social Justice
September 7, 2010Out of Ur has been posting a series of videos where Mark Dever and Jim Wallis, along with Skye Jethani engage the issues of the gospel and social justice. The matter of justification and justice is a longstanding interest of mine, so I was particularly interested in this discussion. For the record, I don’t agree [...]
Categories: Gospel, Social Reform
Tags: Christianity Today, Gospel, Jim Wallis, Mark Dever, Out of Ur, Social Justice
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Ministries of Mercy – Free Audiobook for August
August 2, 2010Christian Audio announced yesterday that their monthly free download for August is Tim Keller’s Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road. The second edition of this book was recently released, and I consider this early work by Keller to be among his more important (and more controversial) books. Whether you agree with him [...]
Categories: Mercy Ministries, Resources, Social Reform
Tags: Audio Book, Christian Audio, Ministries of Mercy, Tim Keller
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Tim Keller on Justification and Justice: The Both/And Gospel
April 29, 2010In case you didn’t know already, Tim Keller has a book coming out later this year entitled Generous Justice. In the publisher’s description of the book, it says: Keller calls upon life-long Christians to deepen their faith by understanding that justice for the poor and marginalized is central to the Scripture’s message and challenges skeptics [...]
Categories: Gospel, Social Reform
Tags: Gospel, Justification, Social Justice
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Tim Keller, Deed Ministry, and Bridge Building
March 24, 2010In his book, Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road, Tim Keller gives three ways in which mercy (deed) ministry supports the evangelistic work of the church. He says it serves as (1) a plausibility structure for the lost, it (2) builds a bridge to the lost, and (3) functions as a communication [...]
Categories: Culture, Evangelism, Social Reform
Tags: Deed Ministry, Ministers of Mercy, Social Involvement, Tim Keller
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Safeguarding Mercy Ministry with Gospel Priority
March 19, 2010Greg Gilbert recently posted an excerpt of this lengthy discussion of D.A. Carson, John Piper, and Tim Keller where Carson asks them how to safeguard mercy ministry from mistakes in the past. Piper’s and Keller’s responses, transcribed by Gilbert, give good counsel on this important matter of word and deed ministry. Here’s their responses:
Categories: Gospel, Social Reform
Tags: Gospel, John Piper, Mercy Ministry, Tim Keller
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Gospel and Poor: Some Personal Reflections
March 17, 2010Over the past couple of weeks, I have taught on the relationship of the gospel and the poor which apparently is a hot topic in some evangelical circles. I initially intended this to be a short addendum to the 20-week teaching on “The Gospel Centered Life” from last year, but when I asked our adult [...]
Categories: Gospel, Social Reform
Tags: Gospel, Gospel and Poor, Poor, Tim Keller
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The Biblical Gospel and Its Social Implications
March 4, 2010James MacDonald rejects the Social Gospel but embraces the social implications of the biblical gospel:
Categories: Gospel, Social Reform
Tags: Gospel, James MacDonald, Social Responsibility
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Kingdom Words, Kingdom Deeds
March 1, 2010A lesser known evangelical declaration, the Manila Manifesto (1989) was adopted by the Second International Congress on World Evangelization in Manila, Philippines. Regarding the gospel and our social responsibility, I would like to post an excerpt: The authentic gospel must become visible in the transformed lives of men and women. As we proclaim the love [...]
Categories: evangelicalism, Gospel, Social Reform
Tags: evangelicalism, Gospel, Manila Manifesto, Poor, Social Responsibility
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Margin for the Marginalized
February 25, 2010From Tim Chester and Steve Timmis: Jesus’ eating with sinners is a wonderful declaration of the riches of God’s grace. But notice how this grace plays out in practice. It results in Jesus spending time with the despised and marginalized. It means Jesus has time for the needy. They are his priority. He does not [...]
Categories: Excerpts, Jesus, Social Reform
Tags: Gospel and Poor, Jesus, Poor, Social Responsibility, Total Church
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The Gospel and Hearts for the Poor
February 22, 2010Here’s an excerpt from A Gospel Primer for Christians on a much discussed topic among evangelicals today: the relationship of the gospel to the poor. Check it. Like nothing else could ever do, the gospel instills in me a heart for the downcast, the poverty-stricken, and those in need of physical mercies, especially when such [...]
Categories: Gospel, Social Reform
Tags: A Gospel Primer, Gospel, Gospel and Poor, Poor
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Gospel Workshops – An Idea for Consideration
September 29, 2009I have argued for several years now that the greatest need for our churches today is the recovery of the gospel. Some people have concluded that what I mean by that is everyone embracing the doctrines of grace; however, a casual observer of my blog could able to discern that is not the case. What [...]
Categories: Community, Culture, Ecclesiology, Evangelism, Gospel, I Love the Local Church, Leadership, Prayer, Preaching, Social Reform, worship
Tags: Gospel, Gospel Workshop, gospel-centered, local church
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Pray for Lakeshore
January 17, 2009This past week, a team from our church along with several other churches ministered as part of the Rebuild Lakeshore. For those of you may not be familiar with Rebuild Lakeshore, Don Elbourne is pastor of a church whose community (and church buildings) were completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Since then, Don and his church [...]
Categories: Social Reform
Tags: Don Elbourne, Lakeshore Baptist Church, Rebuild Lakeshore
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Dan Kimball on Wholeness and Hell
November 19, 2007Dan Kimball, a leading voice in the Emerging Church Movement, shares his concerns of an absence of evangelism and downplaying (if not outrightly rejecting) the reality of hell. Here’s an excerpt from Kimball’s blogpost (emphasis mine): Something else I love about [this convention] is something I honestly feel is often missing often in the whole [...]
Categories: Emerging Church Movement, Evangelism, Social Reform
Tags: Emerging Church Movement, Evangelism, Hell, Social Action
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