As we pray for God’s glory on the earth, we’ll begin to pray for that glory in conversion, evangelism, and global missions. Our prayers receive a new center of gravity. A desire for individual converts and visible churches translates into frequent and fervent prayers for missions. Our hearts begin to break for the lost.
Read MoreJesus invites the disciples into the secret places with God. Rather than pray with sinful motives of others’ estimations of you, go to the One whose secret estimate means more. Go to God in the secret places, where no one can be and no one else will know.
Read MoreOver the past three months, our men’s small groups have read books on evangelism. Before we move on to new topics of study in the new year, I thought it'd be useful to reflect on a few principles from the reading. Namely: (1) what is evangelism? And (2) How should a church together think about evangelism?
Read MoreOne of the small yet great, common yet deadly, immature but sinful, tendencies in many-a-Christian’s heart and habit (including mine) is to tolerate those conversations where a man’s character is attacked by another. We know it as slander or gossip. Charles Simeon called it evil-speaking.
Read MoreAs you’ve heard us say many times, we are a church that is built upon the rock of God’s Word; therefore, we are a church compelled toward expositional preaching. What’s that?
Read MorePerhaps your Bible does the same thing mine does. In between Mark 16.8 and 16.9, the publishers include this note: ‘Some of the earliest manuscripts do not include Mark 16.9-20.’ And then, there are double brackets around v 9-20. What’s up with that?
The basic answer: Mark 16.9-20 is most likely (we might even say, almost certainly) not a part of Mark’s original Gospel.
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