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Worldliness Is a Gospel Issue (Part Three)
Part One Part Two Scripture shows worldliness as a gospel issue. When someone repents, he leaves the world system for a heavenly one. When salvation presents itself to someone, a worldly heart, which cares more about the accoutrements of this present world than the realities of the next one, the one of God, the […]
The Insidious Pragmatism of Churches in Towns in America
For my first twelve years, I grew up in and attended a church in a small rural town in Indiana. Our town was 2,600 and that was my world at the time. I didn’t know anything else. We very rarely got out of town and mainly to visit my grandparents at their farm near an […]
The Relationship Between Wokeism and Revivalism in Churches
Some of you may know that right now the Southern Baptists (SBC) convene in Southern California for their 2022 annual meeting. At this very time, Mark Dever and 9 Marks, a Reformed faction of the SBC, produce their journal with the emphasis on revivalism (June 2022). I wish I could be happy to join their […]
Book Offer: “Disciplines for Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ”
After starting a church in the San Francisco Bay Area, in 1991 I wrote a thirty week discipleship manual, titled, “Disciplines for Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.” This proceeded from two scriptural imperatives. First, the Great Commission is to make disciples, fulfilling the word “teach,” the only imperative in Matthew 28:19-20. Second, if making […]
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