People often say that the age-segregated discipleship system is biblical because it was practiced in the rabbinical schools in Israel during the time of Christ. They conclude that it is legitimate to adopt the pattern of the rabbis. There are...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The longings and rejoicings that accompany times of awakening are recorded in this account of an Awakening on the Island of Arrau in Scotland in 1812. "For some months after the commencement of the awakening, the subjects of it manifested an...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Justin Taylor's Blog quotes an important comment from J. I. Packer on the lust for newness - which in my view is the source of many problems in modern church life. the newer is the truer,only what is recent is decent,every shift of ground is a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"Gentlemen, this is a football.” These were the infamous words of legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi, at the start of football season. His point in making this statement was to underline the importance of the fundamental principles of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A study in the UK concluded that "children who spend large amounts of time with their fathers have higher IQs, according to a new study." "Strong fatherly involvement in their early life can also improve a child's future career prospects, the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"As the saving doctrine of Christ is the soul of the church, so discipline forms ligaments which connect the members together, and keep each in its proper place. Whoever, therefore, either desire the abolition of all discipline, or obstruct its...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We should bring our children with us to the publick teaching, so may our private teaching prove profitable. Oftentimes divine truths are as nails, one teaching sets them in, and the other teaching fastens them; one plants and the other waters, and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
YMToday.com recently posted a review of my book A Weed in the Church. Here is Matt Hudson's response to the review: Thank you for taking the time to read and review this book. I completely agree with you that more youth workers ought to read and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Charles Spurgeon identified the power of the gospel in a family in a sermon on Acts 16:14, which records the conversion of Lydia – the first conversion in Europe. He relates many of the wonderful stories of women in the Bible, and then he...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Even up till the day of his death, Whitefield never tired, nor retired from preaching the Gospel. Before Whitefield preached to a large crowd in Exeter, a bystander said to him, “Sir, you are more fit to go to bed than to preach.”...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
