"Watch your life and doctrine closely"
Knowing he’ll never see them again, Paul gathers the Ephesian elders and counsels them with these words: Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my…
From the blog this week: Christ the Priest Beto O’Rourke’s Plan to Destroy Churches “O’Rourke is showing Christians that the threat posed by legalized same-sex marriage is more real—and more radical—than they may have yet realized.” 7 Traits of Toxic Church Leaders “Toxic leaders keep great things from happening in a church. Toxic leaders often avoid systems…
Today we’ll continue our study of “Great Doctrines of the Bible” by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. The last chapter considered the prophetic role of Christ, today we’ll examine chapter 26, “Christ the Priest.” Our sin renders us unable to stand before a holy God. We need to be delivered from our guilt, and in the Old Testament…
Check out these links from around the web: 8 Signs of True Repentance “Often I’ve been told by my abuser, “If you don’t forgive me, God won’t forgive you.” But this threatening posture indicates insincere repentance. It’s unloving, manipulative, and implies the offender doesn’t accept or comprehend the gravity of what they’ve done.” How to…
From the blog this week: Behold Our God! Check out these links from around the web: The Gospel is Freedom From Pretending and Performing “So, you’re always wondering, “Have I been good enough?” and “Have I done enough?” And, if something bad happens to you, you wonder, “Is God paying me back for something?” This…
About 53 million light-years from earth is a supermassive black hole that is the core of Messier 87, one of the largest galaxies in the observable universe. Several billion times the mass of the sun, this black hole (like all black holes) has such a gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape it…
“From the blog this week: Lloyd-Jones on Numbers Check out these links from around the web this week: The Best New Worship Songs of the 2010s “The following 35 songs are my picks for the best new worship songs written and released between 2010 and 2020. In compiling this list I focused on songs that…
At a Westminster Chapel discussion group in 1944, the topic of numbers came up and many were concerned. Attendance had dropped due to WWII, and many “doubted whether the plain services now established, with forty-five minute (or longer) sermons and not even an organ…would ever bring back the numbers which once crowded the building.” A…
From the blog this week: Is It Vain to Serve God? Check out these links from around the web: What Do We Mean When We Say Scripture is Inspired? “What did the Apostle Paul mean when he wrote that “all Scripture is inspired by God”? After all, if human beings wrote the books of the…
Have you ever done the right thing only to suffer loss for it? Has telling the truth led to consequences that the person who was willing to lie didn’t have to face? Has being unwilling to compromise morals costs you an opportunity for advancement to someone who was willing to make such compromises? Being a…