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Prayer is a necessary practice of a sound church. The role of secret and corporate prayer in the life of a Christian congregation is sometimes overlooked. Mark Dever, whose insights we value, fails to list to prayer as one of his “marks” of “healthy churches.” (Dever concedes this point and briefly addresses it in his [...]
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For previous installments from this series:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
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A further word ought to be said about building community within local [...]
Continue Reading →Many professing believers today are asking, “Is it really necessary at all to be a member of a visible, local church? If I am a member of the invisible, Universal Church by nature of my spirit baptism, then why should I join a local church?”
I think the Bible teaches that it is necessary to [...]
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For previous installments from this series:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Print this essay as a bulletin insert.
At least in America, few rural communities are left. Rural communities included farms and small [...]
Continue Reading →As conservatives, it can be easy to grow discouraged. There are very few of us. It seems that all of American Christianity (sorry, David de Bruyn) is abandoning the way of worship that we understand to be reverent. The good, the true, and the beautiful rarely brings in an audience. Our churches are shrinking. Fundamentalism [...]
Continue Reading →In the past couple weeks I have tried to suggest two reasons (among many others) problems in worship exists today. The first is that pastors are untrained in worship and music, and the second is that church musicians have little theological competency.
I have observed a growing [...]
Continue Reading →I suggested last week, springing from Kevin Bauder’s excellent article, that one of the reasons worship is in such trouble today is that pastors who should be the primary leaders of worship are often ill-educated in matters of worship and music.
I suggested that while [...]
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