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Give Them Time: How to Protect the Assuring Nature of a Child’s Baptism
How do we know if we’re looking at a good kid or a regenerate kid? The one thing we know for sure is that time will tell.
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Book Review: The Great Dechurching, by Jim Davis & Michael Graham
The solution to the great dechurching of America isn’t better techniques or a different gospel. It’s healthy churches.
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Ecclesiological Triage
How do we decide when and to what extent to cooperate with churches that are more or less like-minded?
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Preaching in the Age of Expressive Individualism: Telling the Story of Our New Identity
Preach the Word. Apply it to your people’s lives. Tell them who they are in Christ. Remind them where they are in his story. The Word will do the rest.
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Live with Your Church Members in an Understanding Way
Listening well and loving deeply won’t resolve every political disagreement in your church. It will do something better.
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Should I Respond to George Floyd’s Death This Sunday?
We each have to pastor our own flocks in light of their needs, strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots. But we don't do that in a vacuum. We need to be wise, but we also cannot duck important issues.
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Pastoring in a Pandemic, Episode 3: Thinking through the Dilemma of Gathering Again with Michael Lawrence
Jonathan Leeman chats with Michael Lawrence, the senior pastor of Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon, about the dilemma of our churches gathering again.
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The Problem with Altar Calls and the Sinner’s Prayer
There's no question the Lord has used altar calls and the sinner’s prayer to bring people to himself. But in general, they’re not a good idea. They inoculate people to the gospel, convincing them they no longer need it when in fact they don’t have it at all.
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Complementarianism & Theological Triage
I’d like to offer some help on how to talk and think about the application of complementarianism within your own congregation, whether that’s with people you agree with or people you don’t.
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The Love Story of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
The entire storyline of Scripture, the history of redemption, is the story of God providing substitutes for his people to cover their shame and bear the judgment they deserved so that they might be accepted by him.
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Twenty Quotes from It Is Well: Expositions on Substitutionary Atonement
20 quotes from It Is Well, a book by Mark Dever & Michael Lawrence.
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Your Understanding of Salvation should Shape your Philosophy of Ministry
If you believe God is totally sovereign in conversion, then that should affect your philosophy of ministry—how you preach, how you evangelize, and even how you structure your membership process.