Archive for May, 2008
Keller On The Gospel
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Tim Keller has written an article in Leadership magazine about various forms of the gospel. In great Keller fashion he clearly examines critical aspects of the Gospel and exposes how others criticize the gospel as exclusionary or mis-applied by evangelicals.
I particularly enjoyed how he explains the ways he integrates the individual and corporate aspects of the gospel in his preaching.
Excellent [...]
Ramblings
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Last Sunday was a good day- it’s always good to worship with God’s people at The Point. I am blessed, blessed, blessed. God is using the 1 Corinthians 13 series to do some really cool stuff in the lives of people. Forgiveness was the response of the day. God be praised. We had a big [...]
Love Bites
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Studying 1 Corinthians 13 for our current sermon series, I am finding new (to me) and intriguing nuances about this distinctly Christian love. The Apostle Paul writes so directly to the church concerning how we should properly relate to one another. His words are so crisp and clear, I don’t see how we can mess [...]
Monday
Monday, May 12th, 2008Great day yesterday…really good Sunday. God is using the sermon to provoke us toward rightly loving each other and operating in that love for His glory. I started a new sermon series in 1 Corinthians 13 called “The Greateast of These”. We covered verses 1-3 yesterday on Mother’s Day which seems appropriate. This Sunday I [...]
Living As A Church
Thursday, May 8th, 2008The latest 9Marks eJournal contains a series of lessons on what it means to live together as a church. I had planned to post each of these with some commentary, but time won’t allow a thorough sesseion by session analysis for now. So here are the links to each session:
Church Membership
Preaching
Corporate Prayer
Church Government
Fellowship
Discontentment
Church Leadership
Church Discipline
Encouragement
Serving [...]
Dwell Quotes
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Quotes from the recent “Dwell: Acts 29 Urban Church Planting Conference in NYC”
“Make sure you bring Jesus & justice to the city.” - Stetzer
“If Jesus is not the reason you go to the scriptures, then he will oppose everything you do.” - Driscoll
“What gives incarnational ministry its value? Jesus’ presence; not his works alone.” - [...]
Being The Church: Unity part 1
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008One of the first mid-week studies I led at The Point was a course offered by Mark Dever and 9Marks Ministries. The material is foundational and something that we must constantly be reminded of. This week 9Marks has released the material in one of their weekly e-newsletters for pastors and church leaders. I will be [...]