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On the worship experience and the gospel
Skye Jethani in his book “The Divine Commodity” writes, Ministries that focus on manufacturing spiritual experiences, despite their laudable intentions, may actually be retarding spiritual growth by making people experience dependent. And that is why it is so important to focus our teaching, our worship, our service and the rest of our lives on the…
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Dangerous Christians: Spiritual Aggression
The only adequate answer to an aggressively pagan world is for Christians to recover the New Testament power of spiritual aggression – Karl Barth So what kind of spiritual aggression was that? Let me give you a sneak peek of how aggressive New Testament Christians were: Matthew 11:12 English Standard Version (ESV) 12 From the days of…
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Celebrating our Discipleship Win
Ten weeks ago, we made a major decision to shift our Wednesday service to a discipleship group setting at our main hall. The goal was to get people into discipleship relationship. With our decision comes the shift from running a worship service on a Wednesday to becoming more intentional about making disciples. We experienced a…
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The Gospel is Big Enough to Fight for Itself
Russell Moore: Sometimes believers will throw up their hands in frustration with non-Christian people they know. “I have said everything I know to say to her about the gospel,” one might say. “She already knows it all and doesn’t believe.” Often what we seek is another argument, a hidden angle that our interlocutor hasn’t thought…
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Lady Gaga and what the Church Should be doing
My good friend and pastor Joseph Bonifacio wrote a very interesting piece regarding the call of Christians to cancel Lady Gaga’s concert here in Manila since Lady Gaga is bringing forth a different kind of spirit and is known as a devil worshiper. I received a text before leaving for Indonesia calling churches to come…