Congratulations to Kevin Chen, our Christmas in July Winner. Kevin blogs at www.fobbycalvinist.com. We hope to do another giveaway this fall or winter. Stay tuned in. Here’s some info about Kevin from his blog: I am a FOB, est. 1996. Sometimes I also consider myself as an Asian-American. I can handle both Chinese and English …
In his great book, Let The Nations Be Glad, John Piper opens with this statement: Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not misisons, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over and the countless millions of the redeemed fall …
Missional is a big catch-word in church growth circles these days, and in the SBC. In conversation with some friends recently, I suggested that maybe the divide between many churches was ideological in part and could be defined along a missional line, ie. missional verses non-missional churches. The problem, as pointed out in that conversation, …
“The seed that saves is the word of God–the gospel preached. The seed that creates new life is the gospel in the mouths of believers, spoken to unbelievers. The surgical instrument that opens the eyes of the blind is your words telling and explaining the gospel.” -John Piper, Finally Alive (Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2009), …
“As a preacher, I think a lot about relevance. Why should anyone listen to what I have to say? Why should anybody care? Relevance is an ambiguous word. It might mean that a sermon is relevant if it feels to the listeners that it will make a significant difference in their lives. Or it might …