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Vertical Church: Norm Millar

Watch my pastor, Norm Millar, share Harvest London’s story over at site for James MacDonald’s new book, Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be..

Sharing the Gospel with the People Who Changed Your Diaper

Darren Carlson in a post that hits close to home:

Our parents, our sisters, their husbands, and their children do not share our faith. Marriage has certainly brought out the stark contrasts in our lives, and the arrival of children even...

The Bible: Trinitarian to the Core

The simplicity and assurance with which the New Testament writers speak of God as a Trinity have, however, a further implication. If they betray no sense of novelty in so speaking of Him, this is undoubtedly in part because it was no longer a novelty so to speak of Him. It is clear, in other words, that, as we read the New Testament, we are not witnessing the birth of a new conception of God. . . . The whole book is Trinitarian to the core; all its teaching is built on the assumption of the T...

Let Your Helplessness Lead You to the Throne of Grace

Let a sense of your helplessness for the work of the Lord lead you to the throne of grace, to pray, and watch, and wait, for the strengthening and refreshing influences of the Spirit of grace. Here let your faith realize at one and the same view your utter insufficiency, and your complete All-sufficiency. Here behold Him, who is ever presenting Himself before God as our glorious Head, receiving in Himself, according to the good pleasure of the Father, the full supply for this and every succes...

There’s No Simple Formula for Assurance

Today’s post is by Andrew Hall. Andrew is the Lead Pastor of Community Bible Church in Ilderton, Ontario (a small community just outside of London). He and his wife, Melanie, have been married for over 13 years and have four kids. Andrew studied at Providence College University in Otterburne, MB and received my M.Div from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, and blogs at cruciformity.com.

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and...

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GodDoesn’t Need Our Prayers But He Uses Them Mightily

Mark Altrogge:

If you are born again, God has declared you righteous in Christ. Therefore when you pray, God hears and acts.

Sometimes he doesn’t answer right away, or exactly the way we’d like, but he answers.

Especially when it comes to salvation.God says he does not desire any to perish but all to come to the knowledge of the truth. It’s clearly God’s will to save. So if you are praying for a loved one’s salvation, believe God is using your...

Rejoice! We Serve a Precise God!

There’s this quote that I absolutely love from Charles Spurgeon. I first read it a couple of years ago, and one I keep coming back to. Here’s what Spurgeon said:

A Puritan was told that he was too precise; but he replied, “I serve a precise God.”

What always gets me is the Puritan’s response: “I serve a precise God.”

How often do we consider the preciseness of God? Some time ago, maybe two hours before I first read this quote from Spurgeon, I noticed a few Facebook friends “liking” a silly page...

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Chick-fil-Aand the Mosque

Dan Darling:

…there is an aspect of this that I’m not sure many Christians are thinking through.If Chick-Fil-A is a moment where Christians stand up and say, “boycotts are wrong” and more importantly, “freedom of religion matters,” then we need to ask ourselves if we’re being consistent.

Cana Christian Starve to Death?

Tim Challies:

A little while ago I received an email that, at heart, asked a straightforward question: Can a Christian starve to death? It’s a straightforw...

11 Ways to Reignite Your Passion for the Bible

Today’s post is by Dave Jenkins. Dave is the Director of Servants of Grace Ministries. He and his wife are members at Sovereign Grace Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho. You can follow Dave on Twitter at @DaveJJenkins.

I graduated from seminary on May 11, 2012, and, since then, friends have asked me:

“What’s the biggest transition you’ve had since graduating?”

Before I go into my answer to that question, I need to give a little background. I graduated high school in June 2000 (I’m thirty-one years old)...

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Marriagein the Age of Apocalyptic Romance

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Jesus’ Church Is Here to Stay

Justin Holcomb:

The concept of the universal church is important for Christians to grasp as we trust Christ and look to the future. Movements will rise and fall, and individual churches will come and go, but God’s people, the church universal, will never be destroyed. Why? Because Jesus builds his church, and Jesus will not fail.

WhenWill Christ Return?

Justin Taylor,...

Book Review: Women Helping Women by Elyse Fitzpatrick and Carol Cornish

Today’s post is by Kim Shay. Kim and her husband live in southwestern Ontario, where she’s spent the last 22 years primarily as a stay-at-home mom while teaching the Bible to women and serving on the Women’s Ministries committee at her local church. Kim blogs regularly at The Upward Call; follow her on Twitter at @UpwardCall.

As Christian women, it is inevitable that at some point we will be in a position to counsel another woman. Whether it is in a formal setting or an informal one with famil...