Justin Taylor has served us well by putting together a fantastic post explaining how Piper responded to God’s call to the pastorate 30 years ago today. There are a number of links in the post that are all worth following. I will share just three extracts here which combine to make it clear that Piper definitely believed God himself was speaking to him back then, and reflect that he was under no illusions thanks to his dad as to what... Read more
Pathe has masses of old video newsreels which were played before cinema films as a way of keeping up with the news back in the 1950s. Still fondly remembered and appreciated from that time are of course the missions of Billy Graham. Adrian Holloway at Newfrontiers Prayer and Fasting told us of some fantastic films which detail those events. You can imagine yourself there. It is wonderful to see the crowds and somehow the very English voice-over speaking about what... Read more
God. Creator of everything out of nothing. All powerful. Sovereign over every atom. Ruler with no rival. Glorious. Holy. The one who eternally is. Who am I? Nothing that’s what. It really is all about Jesus, not me. After a session that begun in a rousing rejoicing delighting time in the presence of God here at the Newfrontiers prayer and fasting I found myself hit with the sledgehammer which is Simon Brading’s song “Our God he reigns”. Laid low before... Read more
The Christian world is divided between those who think Christians spend too little attention to this world and its political problems and those who think we spend too much. Being “in the world but not of the world” surely means we have room for error at either extreme. My observation? American Christians seem to as a group perhaps be overly concerned about politics, while us Brits tend to veer to the other extreme and may even proudly declare that we... Read more
My friend Marcus Honeysett has been talking about the gap that still remains in places between the “reformed” and the “charismatic” wings of the church. This gap is one that I have in some ways been very aware of all my life, and yet, having grown up in a family of churches that combines both emphases, I have never really understood why some people are adamant that the two must never meet. Marcus speaks of the tendency of some Reformed... Read more
Today, I thought I would share two more endorsements for my future book: “Adrian has provided us with a thorough, thoughtful and inspiring study of the resurrection. It left me better informed, more eager to live the life and more thankful to God for the basis of my faith: a risen Lord Jesus and an empty tomb!” David Stroud – UK Team Leader, Newfrontiers Author of Planting Churches, Changing Communities Raised with Christ is wonderfully accessible to ordinary Christians because... Read more
Had a great email from a reader of my blog in Asia which I reproduce with permission in its entirety: I’m a faithful reader of your blog and a missionary in China. Thanks for being a place to go over the last couple years as God has increased my desire to “have it all“. I’ve learned a lot through some of your posts and links to other Reformed Charismatics. I was blessed by the Spurgeon quote you posted a few... Read more
I would like to invite you to take a survey to help me get to know you more and plan for the future. We are actually hoping to get a redesign up very shortly (possibly even this week), so this will give us a good baseline to look at what people think of the new site after they have had a chance to get used to it. So, please take just a few moments of your time and click here... Read more
Today’s quote from the Doctor is on the subject of conflict resolution. Writing about Ephesians 5, Lloyd-Jones stresses the source of the only true solution for human conflicts: The world is characterized by divisions, by clashes, everybody wanting to be first, everybody wanting to be important. That is, of course, the main cause of all the problems and the difficulties that are confronting the world at this present time. Now the Apostle’s statement asserts that there is really only one... Read more
From Christ Himself – The Gospel Coalition Blog: “Our faith is a person; the gospel that we have to preach is a person; and go wherever we may, we have something solid and tangible to preach, for our gospel is a person. If you had asked the twelve Apostles in their day, ‘What do you believe in?’ they would not have stopped to go round about with a long sermon, but they would have pointed to their Master and they... Read more
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