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A Church Where Everyone Ministers
Are you involved in the church’s activities? This question might be answered in a number of ways by various people in the church. Some would say that they’re up to their eyeballs in church activities, while others, on the other … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Leadership, Christianity, Church Growth, New Testament
Tagged body, church, church growth, clergy, evangelism, faithfulness, fellowship, growing faith, involvement, laity, meaning of life, obedience, persecution, priesthood of all believers, priests, religion, sacrifice, work, worship
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We Persuade Men
Although the world discourages and even frowns on the sharing of the Christian faith, sheer humanity demands that Christians speak up, be bold, and persuade men. “Did you say, ‘Sheer humanity’?” you might ask. “Aren’t you being a little dramatic, … Continue reading
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Tagged jesus is the only way to heaven, wages of sin is death
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Mothers’ Day Thoughts — 2013
I read the other day an alarming article about the significant rise in the number of “walk-away” mothers in our current culture, and the corresponding rise among single-parent fathers in our nation. This was no spurious right-wing blog, but a … Continue reading
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Fear of the Lord
Many of our contemporary world might congratulate themselves because they don’t fear the Lord. Thinking themselves quite “evolved” and grown-up enough to either no longer need fear as a motivation for doing the right thing or (much worse) thinking that … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, New Testament
Tagged awe, creator, discipleship, disrespect, father, fear, friend, heaven, Hell, holiness, holy, judgement, love, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, respect, taking God seriously, terror, wisdom
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SPIRITUAL MATURITY IS…
Over the past few weeks we’ve been considering growth, personal spiritual and corporate church. I’d like to wrap up this “binge” of articles on growth (at least for now) on a note of “outcomes” — what does spiritual maturity (mature … Continue reading
From the Mouths of the “Unchurched”
Last week in this bulletin article we started considering how we might grow in numbers. We noted that we must start we “going”, the original command of the Lord and the proven best way. If we want to grow, we … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, Church Growth, New Testament
Tagged church growth, evangelism, growth, unchurched
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If We Go, They Will Come
In the last couple of months I’ve talked about some of the ways and means of spiritual growth. Certainly more can be said about this and probably will be over the course of this year (Lord willing). But another important … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged change, church, church assembly, church growth, correcting, edification, entertainment, evangelism, false worship, growth, insiders, manner of worship, numbers, outsiders, pattern, purpose, sin, teaching, televangelists, training, worship
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Continually…Devoted…Themselves
There are a lot of things that could be (and are) said about how to grow spiritually. This is because 1) it is not a simple task to turn back the desires, passions, and “wisdom” of the flesh; and 2) … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged constancy, devotion, faithfulness, obedience, perseverance, persistance, personal growth, religion, self, self starting, sin, spiritual growth, spirituality, theology
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Struggling to Grow
Sincere Christians desire to grow, but growing more spiritually mature is not intuitive or easily accomplished. Paul speaks of his own personal growth this way, “Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press … Continue reading
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Tagged church, courage, emotions, faith, faithfulness, feelings, focus on Jesus, Gideon, grit, hang in there, hard work, imitation, Job, keep on keeping on, moses, obedience, overcoming, perseverance, spiritual giants, spiritual growth, suffering, thorn in the flesh, WWJD
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The Suffering Servant
This being Easter, much is said about the cross of Christ and His resurrection. Most of what is said is truly moving and thought provoking, but none of them top what was said about the cross and resurrection of Jesus … Continue reading →