From Greatness to Mediocrity

Greatness is a hard quality to measure, especially if you desire to measure it by God’s standard, because we are so quick to measure according to our standards. Size of the church, the number of people, the type of ministries available are all ways in which we try to measure church health and growth. [...]

A Marine’s Viewpoint on the Christian Life

This past week, our pastor has been on vacation. Therefore, one of our members filled in for him for the mid-week Bible study last night. He served as a Marine. The devotion he gave last night was a wonderful exposition of the Bible from a Marine’s point-of-view.
He has the entire manuscript included [...]

The Gospel Defined by John Calvin

Justin Taylor on Between Two Worlds reprints Calvin’s preface to Pierre Robert Olivétan’s French translation of the New Testament (1534). It is a wonderful description and definition of what the gospel really is. I’ve reprinted it below for you to read.
Without the gospel
everything is useless and vain;
without the gospel
we are not Christians;
without the [...]

Relying on the Gift of the Spirit’s Power

In the book, The Supremacy of God in Preaching by John Piper, he discusses how he seeks to rely completely on the Spirit’s power during the preaching event. Now, I know most people who will read this are not preachers, so naturally, you are thinking, “how does this apply to me?” I believe [...]

Helping Kids to Love Missions

As Christians, it is important for us to teach the importance and the joys of missions. Therefore, it is vitally important that we teach children how to love missions and to help support missionaries. Desiring God has a blog post on 10 ways in which families and teachers can help teach kids how [...]

Pray for Muslims During Ramadan

Mission Network News is calling for a month of prayer for Muslims around the world during the Ramadan season, August 22nd to September 20th. Ramadan is a very holy month for Muslims in which they try to purge their bodies of all kinds of evil through fasting. Let’s be in prayer for them [...]

Prepare for Suffering – Now!

The following quote comes from the book, Let the Nations be Glad: the Supremacy of God in Missions by John Piper. In this quote, Piper quote Richard Wurmbrand who suffered in his home country of Romania to help stress the importance of preparing for suffering before we have to face suffering.
“Richard Wurmbrand endured fourteen [...]

Biblically Sound Hip Hop

Anybody who knows me, knows that I love music, especially Christian music. But one of the problems I’ve found is that alot of what is classified as Christian music is little more than just secular music that just happens to mention Jesus’ name once in a while to make it fit the Christian genre. [...]

Don’t Waste Your Life

Each of us who are called by God have been called for a purpose. Not to live according to the purpose in which God has created us with is to waste our life. Sadly, many Christians go through life only to come to the end and weep because they have wasted their life. [...]

Penn Gillette on Christian Evangelism

I had this video emailed to me a few weeks ago and wanted to share it with all of you. This video is of Penn Gillette giving his take on evangelism. The reason why I think this is interesting, because, if you know of Penn Gillette, you will recognize him as being one [...]

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