After One Year, The Planting Continues This week marks one year since our family joined Grace Baptist Church. It has been wonderful chapter to our lives. We are excited about what God is doing at Grace Baptist and our efforts to plant Providence Church. Thanks to all of you who are partners of our through [...]
Archive for the ‘Gospel’ Category
18 Mar
The Valley of Vision
Last month I purchased a little book published by Banner of Truth called The Valley of Vision. It is a collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions edited by Arthur Bennett that were taken from men like Thomas Watson, Isaac Watts, Charles Spurgeon, David Brainerd, Richard Baxter, and John Bunyan, men who lived for God between the [...]
3 Feb
Reflections from the Global Church Advancement (GCA) Conference
I have greatly benefited from seminary training concentrated on church planting, and other denominational training. But the most comprehensive church planting training I have received to date has come from Steve Childers and the Global Church Advancement (GCA). Last week I was fortunate to attend the conference a second time in six months. This time, [...]
15 Jan
Heaven…Why It May Cost More Than You Think
It is common thought today, and has been ever since biblical times, that a man can earn or purchase heaven and its benefits. The most common expression of this idea is found in the notion that God grants access to heaven to those who earn it with good living. Behind this thinking is the belief [...]
29 Dec
Books I’ve Read In 2009
In 2001 at the age of 25, I read my first legitimate book from cover to cover. I was not raised a reader. In fact, I hated reading! I only looked at books for pictures. However, things changed that year. That fall, I enrolled in school at a masters level for a seminary education at [...]
21 Dec
Are There Problems With Today’s Gospel? — Part 3
There is valid evidence suggesting reasons to doubt the life-changing effect the Gospel has in the evangelical church today, as I tried to note in Part One. Since I do not believe the problem is with the Gospel of the Bible, in Part Two I suggested the source of the problem may be with how [...]
14 Dec
Are There Problems With Today’s Gospel? — Part 2
To read the first part of this post click here. In part one, I tried to give reasons why the question, “Are there problems with today’s gospel?,” is a valid question. Research is regularly published that suggest major problems in the evangelistic efforts of gospel-believing churches. Before I suggest my opinion on solutions to this [...]
7 Dec
Are There Problems With Today’s Gospel? — Part 1
Are there problems with today’s Gospel? Statistics continually demonstrate there is a problem with our evangelism today, particularly in the denomination I have most of my experience. Experts continually report decline in the number of baptisms (and here). Not only are the numbers down of those who have come to faith , but there is [...]
30 Nov
Core Values Study: Gospel Centrality
In his article The Centrality of the Gospel Tim Keller explains from Galatians 2:14, “…the Christian life is a process of renewing every dimension of our life– spiritual, psychological, corporate, social–by thinking, hoping, and living out the “lines” or ramifications of the gospel. The gospel is to be applied to every area of thinking, feeling, [...]
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