Old age syndromes to avoid

What kind of older saint do you want to be? This post looks at some issues that may come in older age that we will want to avoid.

A coward’s guide to evangelism

This is so helpful and encourages us to just get up and go out taking the gospel wherever we can.

The church is a dangerous place to be

‘Is church really a safe, friendly, and casual place as many modern churches try to communicate to the people? Is church really a place where worshippers and visitors can casually and comfortably enter and enjoy their time? My answer is no. Contrary to many churches that try to communicate to its worshippers and visitors, I would argue that a church is first and foremost a dangerous place to be for anyone.’

The reconsecration of man

Whatever you think that title might mean, this one is basically about the importance of gratitude, what a failure to be grateful may well indicate and what expressing it might well do for both us and those around us.

Do we pray the Lord’s Prayer wrongly?

Tis may be a question you’ve never asked. It may even lay out a form of words that you hadn’t considered mattered very much. But there are implications for how we take it and understand it. This one looks at what an apparently small difference in how we say the Lord’s Prayer might have big implications for what we do as churches.

10 key bible verses about the Lord’s Supper

This one lists some verses about the Lord’s Supper and puts the commentary notes from the ESV study bible underneath.

From the archive: What about weddings

‘If I had it my way, nobody would ever get married at the church. Weddings would take place only at the registry office, conducted exclusively and clearly by the state. The church wouldn’t be involved in any legal proceedings at all. The church may conduct a thanksgiving service for the wedding should it be wanted but it would not conduct the wedding itself. I broadly share Don Carson’s view here (his fifth point is the relevant one).’