Great Grace, Great Fear
SERMON • Does God find us living out true faith in sincere love or playing games with him—going through the motions of religion while our hearts are far from him? Acts 4:32–5:11 records the Holy Spirit (1) producing radical generosity and (2) exposing religious hypocrisy in the early church. Be encouraged, sobered, and inspired to live with an open heart and open hands before God and the church.
When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community
Book Review • Hellerman, Joseph H. When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2009. Kindle. $10.49.
Read time: 12 min
The Primacy of Expository Preaching in the Local Church
PAPER • As tempting as it may be to try to replace biblical preaching with promising novelties of various sorts, nothing actually can replace biblical preaching. This paper gives three arguments for why and three applications for how to prioritize the expository preaching of biblical texts in the gathered assembly.
Read time: 24 min
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