Posted in Misc, The Gospel on May 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’ve never done this before, but because of a few requests, and in hopes that a few family and friends will benefit from a sermon that I benefited from myself, below I’m going to place a few excerpts from a sermon I preached this past Lord’s Day evening. If you’ve never heard me preach (trust [...]
Posted in Church, Worship on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Means of Grace: instruments that God uses to convert and bless people, like the reading and preaching of the word, prayer, singing (psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; Acts 16:25; Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16)…baptism, and the Lord’s supper.
During a discussion on the ‘means of grace’, a man once told me that the only true ‘means of [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Worship on May 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
In a recent Time magazine article on the new phenomenon, Twittering in church, a pastor of a church in Charlotte, N.C, Todd Hahn, made the following statement:
[Regarding Twittering during Church]: “if God leads you to continue this as a form of worship by all means do it.”
Now, I use Twitter, I enjoy it, and whether [...]
Posted in Law/Gospel, The Gospel on May 12th, 2009 24 Comments »
In my last post I said the following in an attempt to present the gospel of Jesus Christ:
“Salvation is by works alone. But man is incapable of working his way to salvation. You need an alien righteousness, the works of Another”
If scripture clearly and emphatically declares that salvation is by faith (in Christ) alone, why [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, The Gospel on May 7th, 2009 22 Comments »
This week Greg Gilbert over at the 9Marks blog asked whether we could accurately present the gospel of Jesus Christ on Twitter –requiring that the text be 140 characters or less. I thought this was an excellent and profitable question, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading some of the short gospel presentations.
However, as I thought [...]
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