Leadership questions

What makes a good leader? What makes a good leader in a home? In his outstanding and classic book, Spiritual Leadership (purchase the original edition, if you can find it), Oswald Sanders asks a series of questions that reveal the character of a natural leader.  They are good questions for all leaders — whether they […]

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Today’s Quote – Church (Guinness)

Os Guinness, No God But God: The overwhelming majority of Americans, more than 85%, identify themselves as Christians.  But if the statistical indicators of faith are up, the social influence is down, and the reasons are becoming plain.  There has been a carelessness about Christian orthodoxy, a corruption of Christian obedience, a vacuum of Christian […]

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The kind of Father God is

I didn’t have time to develop this thought fully in my sermon yesterday morning, but here are some Scriptures to stimulate your thinking about the kind of Father God is to His children: He is compassionate toward our needs (whether it is sin or difficulty; 2 Thess. 2:16-17) We are recipients of His mercy — […]

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Sunday Leftovers (9/13/09)

I fell in love while I was in seminary.  Twice. It was while I was matriculating in preparation for ministry that I met Raye Jeanne, fell in love and we married. And during those same years of study, I fell in love with another woman — the bride of Christ — the church. I hadn’t […]

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Today’s Quote – Church (Wells)

David Wells, The Bleeding of the Evangelical Church: [In today’s church,] The importance of theology is eclipsed by the clamor for management skills, biblical preaching by entertaining story-telling, godly character by engaging personality, and the work of the ministry by the art of sustaining a career.  I believe that these are all unhappy exchanges.

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Help for reading through the Bible

A couple years ago, our church read through the Bible over 66 Sundays by reading the key chapter in each book of the Bible.  To help our body understand the context in which these chapters were written, we provided some basic background information, which we then posted on the church website.  That information has now […]

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Another view of God’s creation

This morning Al Mohler overviewed new photographs that have been provided by the Hubble telescope. These photographs are astounding representations of the vastness of the created world. Every time I see something like this, I am reminded of the words of the psalmist: When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon […]

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