Posted in It Matters, Sermons, The Church, Theology on Jul 15th, 2008 No Comments »
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the [...]
Posted in Culture, Current Events, The Church on May 12th, 2008 No Comments »
The following answer this question, a question that definitely needs to be answered:
D. A. Carson
John Piper
C. J. Mahaney
Mike Bullmore
Mark Dever
Ligon Duncan
Tim Keller
(HT: JT)
Posted in The Church, Theology on Feb 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
I am afraid I was, and sometimes still am, replacing worship with music. It’s the balance between allowing culture to affect me and yet being in the culture that I live in, which I believe is absolutely a necessity as a Christian (Matthew 5:13-16). I love music of all types. I would [...]
Posted in Culture, The Church, Theology on Feb 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
David Wells posts on George Barna’s poll to ‘Christians’ about alternatives to the local church. In other words, these are people who call themselves Christians but don’t believe the local church is a necessity to faith. Here are their alternatives that they found biblically acceptable (the parentheses show the % of people polled [...]
Posted in The Church, Theology on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Phil Newton’s book is not long but it is definitely helpful those thinking about making the change from congregational governance to elder governance. Even though the book is written from a Baptist perspective, it really is insightful for anyone thinking about this issue. He spends the first two parts of the book addressing [...]
Posted in The Church, Theology on Aug 9th, 2007 7 Comments »
For those who have been going to Wellspring and have taken our membership, some might wonder why we don’t re-baptize those who have been only been baptized as infants. Well, Wayne Grudem and John Piper have recently taken up this issue with Grudem changing his position in an updated version of his Sytemtatic Theology [...]
Posted in The Church, Theology on Jan 18th, 2007 4 Comments »
When I as in seminary, I had a professor (Greg Beale) who said that he was 60% believer’s baptist and 40% paedo-baptist. The more you study baptism and its biblical and theological outworkings, the more you understand his statement. Both positions have valid arguments. Both positions have major questions, especially in wrestling [...]
Posted in The Church on Nov 15th, 2006 5 Comments »
Mark Lauterbach at GospelDrivenLife has an excellent post on his ventures into Congregationalism and its pitfalls. He writes:
Look around friends — there are churches in long term decline, with members drifting away in disillusionment, with splits and angry departures — and their problems are diagnosable and treatable in the good of the Gospel. [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts, The Church on Jul 26th, 2006 3 Comments »
It really can and Satan loves gossip. Chris Bruce of 9 Marks has some good words to ward off this terrible scourge on the church.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the...
2008-06-05 10:33
Dumb alien theme. Save your money. It's a video flick.
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