Many Protestants today know “very little about the earth-shattering events and debates of the Reformation".
It was our first cell group meeting. There was Victoria, a committed student leader in her second year of university; Paula, a new person in her first year of study; and me, the missionary who had arrived to accompany and train leaders. The other people who were invited didn’t come.
John Chapman gives tips to young preachers on how to give Christian talks.
People from a Catholic or Orthodox background do not think about people being nominal; it is a very Protestant way of thinking.
I suspect that we underestimate the burden of sin on our relationships with one another. Some aspects of this burden are obvious; when we are in seasons of strife with brothers and sisters in Christ, the weight of sin is undeniable. Bitterness between brothers drags us down in our fellowship
We don’t like to memorize stuff. We find it dull, painful, and pointless. Most of us would rather go to the dentist than spend 15 minutes working on memorizing something. Honestly, did any of you enjoy learning the times-tables in school? It’s rather laborious work.
This student handbook is designed to complement John Dickson's A Sneaking Suspicion, allowing you to work through the book in a classroom setting.
When we meet together, everything we do has the purpose of pointing to Jesus in the loving service of others, because everything we do is shaped by who we were and who we now are in Christ as part of his body.
This CD-Rom contains all the published editions of the journal 'kategoria', with a searchable index.
Unless we are very deliberate and diligent, evangelism will almost always ‘fall of the table’ when push comes to shove in church (or Christian group) practice.