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Will you start now? The time for silence and solitude will rarely be easy to chisel out of your schedule. The world, the flesh, and the Enemy of your soul will see to that. But if you discipline yourself to do it, your only regret will be that you didn’t start sooner.

Important as it is that we recognize God working in us, I would yet warn against a too-great preoccupation with the thought. It is a sure road to sterile passivity. God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our ey

A gospel culture requires us not to bank on our own importance or virtues, but to forsake self-assurance and exult together in Christ alone. This mental adjustment is not easy, but living in this kind of community is wonderful.

DEFINITION AND DEVELOPMENT Sermons are built on propositions. Classic homiletics describes a proposition as “a statement of the subject as the preacher proposes to develop it.”33 A proposition usually follows an introduction, summarizes its concerns, and indicates what the rest of the sermon will address. As a consequence, a proposition points both

Manipulation of emotions with a story that does not drive home the principles that have been developed in a message ranks among the worst abuses of preaching. But nearly as great an offense is committed by failing to engage the heart, stimulate the will, excite the mind, and elevate the soul concerning eternal truths at this most crucial stage.

Like Joseph, with his dream-coat of many colors, whoever sports the greatest array of marginalized memberships is awarded social dominance over peers.

The longings for wholeness, justice, and significance are three aspects of a universal longing for goodness found within the human heart. As cultural apologists, part of our task is to partner with the Holy Spirit in awakening this longing for goodness. We do this by pursuing the one who is perfectly whole, the source of justice, and the fount of m

Healing the heart is our Father’s imperative work and our introduction to training. Training? Yes, training, learning to experience being a Beloved Son. In the midst of battle, the enemy counts on a man never experiencing that he is a Beloved Son. Lack of this aspect of training makes for a far easier fight for our enemy and a continued small-story