Preparing for Sunday – A Gospel-Saturated Mother
Carefully Think Read through the following passages and list everything you find that Scripture emphasizes as a woman’s and/or a...
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Mid-Week Minutes 5.11.11
Taking a few mid-week minutes to think about how to enhance our fellowship with each other. Sunday’s Sermon, What Makes a Church?...
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Baptism Makes a Church
I am in the midst of a short series of sermons on What Makes a Church. Yesterday’s sermon was on the subject of baptism and looked...
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What is a Church? A Community of the Converted
Carefully Think Read 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10. Paul writes to “the church of the Thessalonians.” In the passage what are...
Read MoreWorship on the iPhone?
Really? Can we really worship biblically with the church simply through our iPhone? How does this not deny the very meaning of...
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Saddleback to Recreate Acts 2 Today!
This was taken from Pastor Rick’s News and Views – Saddleback Church. Dear Saddleback Family, I’m not sleeping...
Read MoreThe Musings of An Ordinary Pastor
I am an ordinary pastor. That is, I know myself well enough and over the years, I have been around a few extraordinary pastors so that I...
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A Note on Romans 15:7-13
Romans 15:7 ¶ Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God. 8 For I say that Christ has become a...
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2009 Shepherds’ Conference Reflections
My expectations for encouragement, equipping, and fellowship as well as theological, spiritual, and practical stimulation were all...
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2009 Shepherds’ Conference
This week I will attend my sixteenth Shepherds’ Conference. I have been attending since 1991, when I was pastoring a church in...
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Cruise Ship vs. Battleship
Dr. Walter Price used this video in a sermon he preached a number of weeks ago and referred to it during a message my wife and I heard...
Read MoreWhen Preaching Is Not Central
A few quick thoughts on what happens when the pulpit and expository preaching loses a place of centrality within the life of the local...
Read MoreEleven Reasons Why We Should Love Preaching
Biblical preaching must not be less than central in the ministry of a local church. That was the theme of my sermon this past Sunday...
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Preaching on the Recession-Do’s and Don’t
Pastor Matt Chandler talks here about silly, Christless ways as well as Christ saturated ways for Pastors to preach and respond to the...
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