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5 Biblical Principles to Guide Leaders at This Time of Crisis
At times of unpredictability, some things remain predictable. People are still people. God is still God. The church is still the church. The Word is still powerful. Heaven is still real. Hell is too. We did not know the future with any more reliability five months ago than we do now; all that has changed…
Read MoreBig Church, Small Church: Does Size Determine Health?
by Josh Moody Nowadays, some feel that if a church is big it carries a greater risk of unhealth than if it were small. ‘Twas not ever thus. A few years ago, the reverse assumption pertained: many people assumed that if a church was big, then it was proof that it must be doing something…
Read MoreReading the Bible
In my prized possession is a letter from John Stott. He was replying to say that he supported me, as the new president of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, in my desire to revitalize the daily Bible reading and prayer life of the Union. Hardly radical stuff. Or is it? Then, and again now, I…
Read MoreA Look at Notable Books for 2018
By David S. Dockery, President, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School We are just days away from the conclusion of the 2018 year. Once again, it is time to reflect on some of the noteworthy books that have been released in 2018. Various estimates suggest that more than 750,000 different titles were published in this country over the past…
Read MoreHow to Invite People to Church
I remember wanting to invite a friend to church. Our church was by no means perfect. Like all churches, we had some quirky things about us, but I knew Christ was being preached. So I wanted my friend to come to church with me. How to do it? One Saturday, the weather was good, and…
Read MoreThe Ten Commandments of Preaching
I recently did a seminar on preaching for the European Leadership Forum in Hungary–http://euroleadership.org/. I used the pneumonic ‘E-X-P-O-S-I-T-O-R-Y’ for the ten commandments of preaching. These are some of the notes from which I spoke. E—Evangelistic. Gospel preaching must have an evangelist edge. You might not have an altar call but you’ve got to call…
Read MoreGeorge Whitefield: the First Blogger
Whitefield’s journals have long occupied pride of place on the eighteenth century section of my Church History bookcase, snuggled up nicely against Jonathan Edwards (co-laborers), and jostling happily against the rather different Benjamin Franklin. Whitefield is the model par excellence for all mass movement evangelists, from DL Moody to Billy Sunday, to Billy Graham. Whitefield…
Read More5 Ways to Have a Healthy Church
A healthy church, like beauty, is not only in “the eye of the beholder.” There are certain patterns of practical behavior that will gradually lead to a healthier church. Here are five ways to have a healthy church. #1 Healthy Preaching We are what we eat, and churches become what they are fed. Feed them…
Read MoreChanging Your Life
Life is on the wrong track. Many people today feel that way for one reason or another. Whether it be politics, cultural issues, moral matters or more prosaically economic realities, much of the Western world senses that times are not so much a’changing as a’worsening. Trusting God Writing long ago, the prophet Isaiah faced situations…
Read MoreReading the Bible
In my prized possession is a letter from John Stott. He was replying to say that he supported me, as the new president of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, in my desire to revitalize the daily Bible reading and prayer life of the Union. Hardly radical stuff. Or is it? Then, and again now,…
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