A couple of weeks ago, I started up a series on gospel-centered renewal, and I want to continue thinking through spiritual renewal that is gospel-nourished. One of the things that has struck me of late is how the Scripture connects “the fear of the Lord” to metaphors or direct references to life, sustenance, and satisfaction. [...]
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Gospel Renewal Through the Fear of the Lord
September 16, 2009Leadership Retreat Feedback
September 5, 2009This past week, the pastors of Grace hunkered down for three days for our leadership retreat. Just a couple of days out of it, the meetings are still fresh on my mind. I think we all agreed that it was really productive, but I also believe it can always improve and be done better. I [...]
Renewal Through Remembering
August 13, 2009I’m continuing my series on gospel-centered renewal with excerpts and commentary focusing on how we experience renewal in the Christian life. If our union with Christ is the heart of renewal, then we should also consider the main arteries from which such nourishment and vitality comes. Today I want to encourage you to consider how [...]
We do pant for this.
August 8, 2009On March 24, 1878, Charles Spurgeon prayed over his congregation, and included in that prayer are the following requests for renewal: “O Lord, give us more and more to have the new life, yea, and to have it more abundantly, for this is one of the objects of His coming. May the new life always [...]
Jonathan Edwards on Continued Transformation and Renewal
August 7, 2009In his book Religious Affections, Jonathan Edwards argued that one way distinguish truly gracious affections from others is that they are attended with a change of nature. When the soul has a spiritual understanding of the excellency and glory of divine things, such understanding brings the supernatural effect of transformation, or a change of nature. [...]
Gospel-Centered Renewal: I Will Be Made New
August 5, 2009:: The Series :: I Have Been Made New (Justification) I Am Being Made New (Part 1) (Sanctification) I Am Being Made New (Part 2) 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is [...]
Gospel-Centered Renewal: I Am Being Made New (Part 2)
August 3, 2009:: The Series :: I Have Been Made New I Am Being Made New (Part 1) 16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond [...]
Gospel-Centered Renewal: I Am Being Made New (Part 1)
August 1, 2009Picking up where I left off, I want to draw out the continuous nature of gospel renewal through the ongoing work of sanctification. Behind these posts is the central theological motif that our union with Christ is the fountainhead of all genuine renewal in the Christian life, and therefore we should center our lives, churches, [...]
Gospel-Centered Renewal: I Have Been Made New
July 29, 2009I believe one of the defining theological marks of my generation is a passionate commitment to the centrality and sufficiency of the gospel for all of life. Some of this could be understood as a corrective to a truncated or shelved gospel, but I am more inclined to believe that God is awakening His people [...]
No one needs the gospel more than me.
March 11, 2010This morning, I enjoyed another meeting with two young men of Grace (my A-team) at Panera talking about being faithful to apply the gospel to our own heart. If I truly know myself, we will be quick to confess that the worst sinner in the room at any given time is me. Therefore, there is [...]
Categories: Gospel, Idolatry, Jesus, Personal Commentary, Renewal
Tags: Gospel, gospel-centered, Preaching the Gospel to Yourself, Renewal, Repentance
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