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Top 10 Things I Wish Worship Leaders Would Stop Saying
Jared Wilson lists the things he really wants worship leaders to stop saying—things like “Lord, we invite you to be here” and “Let’s give God a hand.” He follows it with Top 10 Things I Love That Worship Leaders Do.
Can the Devil Read My Mind?
R.C. Sproul takes a shot at an answer.
Ministerial Magpies
Jeremy Walker writes about pastors and plagiarism, but he does so very realistically. “We must never simply run through another man’s sermons as if they were our own. Simple honesty forbids that. But, when opportunity permits and as duty requires, let us make our way into the vineyards of our bookshelves and e-resources, and glean the best of the fruit; spend time around those vines that have produced the sweetest and juiciest fruit of past years. Press down the grapes and soak prayerfully in the best of the past, and let it seep into us.”
Praying in the Wake of Zika
Kathryn Butler, an MD, writes about Zika. “As Christians, how do we understand the outbreak, and how do we respond to the fears, both in our communities and in our own hearts?”
Dumb Moments in Church History
I wish I had thought of this idea for a series! This should be good.
This Day in 1913. 103 years ago today, Robert McDonald, an Anglican missionary and gifted linguist, died in Winnipeg. He evangelized to the First Nation peoples of Canada. *
Where Did the Footprints Poem Come From?
Everyone knows the poem. But who wrote it? “The short answer, it seems, is that there are many claimants to authorship (no surprise given the potential financial windwall if authorship can be demonstrated!), but no consensus as to who wrote it originally.”
Flashback: Sanctification Is a Community Project
The measure of the Christian life is growth in holiness. We grow in holiness, at least in part, by putting sin to death. We put sin to death by exposing it to the light.
The Reformation at 500
Thanks to the G3 Conference for sponsoring the blog this week. The conference takes place in Atlanta this January.
There are too many men who are ministers before they know how to be Christians.
—Richard Baxter
