How Mathetes' evangelistic approach shocks and humbles me....

In the introduction to "Give Praise to God, A Vision for Reforming Worship," Philip Ryken describes how the late Dr. James Boice (who died in 2000, and in whose memory the book was written) was (rightfully) troubled by what he saw happening in the contemporary church. Ryken writes:"Given the priority that he placed on honoring God in our worship, Dr. Boice understandably w...

During the time of my first church plant in another state, we had a statewide meeting of church planters during which a representative of the North American Mission Board provided us with some software that would help us with the administration of our churches. The software included membership tracking, time management helps, etc.But also included in the software was a col...

In an interview (I don't recall where I got this from, sorry), Michael Horton made some comments regarding the popularity of the notion that Christians ought to be living "incarnational lives." He notes that while most people use that language to simply describe the posture of identifying with our neighbors in humility, the word incarnational.... ....is attended today by ...

As a recent seminary graduate engaged in starting my first church plant, I cannot claim that I had it all figured out. Not even close. Name a doctrine or theological emphasis and I often had more questions than answers. There were some things, however, that I was clear on. I was invited to a vision-casting meeting held by our main sponsoring church in which they were discu...

While there is no one particular form that we can point to as being the only form for genuine worship, there are some forms which are better than others at being faithful to what God has called for in our worship of Him.We should take warning from the story of Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu found in Leviticus chapter 10. They had just been installed as priests and took it u...

In other words, why do we gather on Sunday mornings in the first place? Various people may answer in various ways, but to get at the answer we cannot simply take a poll, we have to look to see what the Bible says. And what we find is Paul speaking to the Christians in Corinth concerning their weekly gathering saying, "So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifesta...

This is a transcription I did some time ago of excerpts from a conversation between James White and Thom Aschol. I felt that what James White shared below hit such a nerve with me. I could relate so well to going to seminary and then into ministry, wanting to do the will of God and to preach and teach, but being taught, directly and indirectly, that man's methodologies wer...