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Surge: The Gospel’s Movement into the City
Praxis Church in Phoenix, AZ is hosting an Acts 29 Boot Camp on November 9-10 titled Surge: The Gospel’s Movement into the City. Speakers include Wayne Grudem, Darrin Patrick, Jeff Vanderstelt, Matt...
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Remembering Luther's Legacy
Two years ago David Mathis wrote a short post about the connection between the first of Martin Luther's 95 Theses and his last words before he died. It's worth revisiting today as we celebrate the...
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How Saints Grow Happier Forever
Jonathan Edwards viewed heaven as a place where the joy of God's people will only increase forever and ever. (Sam Storms passionately unpacked this grand vision at our 2003 National Conference in his...
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Serving: A Distraction to Listening?
Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her. (Luke 10:42-42) Jesus’ gracious...
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Battling Booklessness
In the midst of all our excitement at welcoming back our colleagues from South Africa, we sent another staff member to Eastern Europe to teach, preach, and encourage pastors and Bible students in the...
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The Benefit of Reading Less
I have been so helped by John Piper’s recommendation in his book, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: I [do not] want to give the impression that I think there is virtue in reading many books. In fact...
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Australia's Greatest Export?
What is Australia’s greatest export? AC/DC or opera singer Joan Sutherland? Nicole Kidman or Russell Crowe? Crocodile Dundee or “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin? Charming colloquialisms? (“G’day,...
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Crash Course in Reformation History
Were you invited to a Reformation party this weekend and had no idea what was going on? You might appreciate these 4 talks by Stephen Nichols. He gave them at an all-day Reformation conference in Omaha...
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How Much Do You Really Know?
This quote is particularly relevant to seminary students, though it applies to all of us who get our fill of good teaching. Let it wound you. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend" (Proverbs 27:6), and...
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The Biblical Vision of Christian Ministry
We're at Bethlehem's North Campus for the first of a 2-day Trellis & the Vine workshop with Col Marshall and Tony Payne (authors of the book by the same title). We found out at the beginning of...
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Key Questions for Growing the Vine
Col began the second session of today’s workshop with a story of a young cricket player who embraced the gospel after two years of intentional ministry of the Word. In summary, Col said that the...
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The Costume Kingdom
It was always one the most dramatic moments in the well-known secret agent drama. Although viewers didn’t know it, one of the Mission Impossible agents had donned a latex mask that was meant to make...
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Cape Town 2010: Looking Back, and Ahead
Here's a great video review of Cape Town 2010, highlighting the congress' effects on participants and its anticipated impact on the global church. Highly recommended. It ends with thoughts from John...
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New Edition of Operation World
Speaking of world missions, David Platt has a guest post this morning on Between Two Worlds about the latest edition of Operation World. His introduction: Years ago I was introduced to Operation World,...
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Small Groups: Positively Dangerous?
For session three yesterday of the Trellis and Vine workshop (the second half of which is today), the pastors split into three groups to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their current ministry....
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Spiritual Parenting
After yesterday’s afternoon of small-group evaluation and discussion, we started Day 2 with another teaching session. Col Marshall led us through 1 Thessalonians 1:1–2:16 and pointed to how Paul...
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Building Ministries Around People
Women in the Work of Vine-Growing The fifth session of this 2-day Trellis and Vine workshop began with an excursus as Tony briefly commented on the ministry of women in this vine-growing work. Tony and...
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Changing a Church Culture
In the sixth and final session of the Trellis and Vine workshop, Col Marshall presented 13 ideas for changing a complicated and programmatic church culture into a culture of disciple-making: Set the...
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The Trellis and the Vine Workshop Recap
After two full weeks and four major cities, The Trellis and the Vine Workshop tour has come to an end. We were privileged to have the last one in Minneapolis yesterday and today. Because we appreciate...
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Dismembering an Idol
In Luke 19, Zacchaeus the tax collector was converted. He vowed to give back fourfold to anyone he had defrauded. Imagine a conversation he might have had when returning the money. * *...
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