“Death looms over us all.
It frightens some and elates other.
Drives us to noble works and dreadful deeds.
Perhaps no single force has worked so powerfully on man as his knowledge that he must surely die.”
10 Ways to Encourage a Missionary – The Gospel Coalition Blog
“In an effort to learn how we can best encourage missionaries, I emailed some and asked how they would most like to be served and encouraged. This list is drawn from their responses, including many direct quotes.”
-Mark Rogers via Between Two Worlds
10 Ways to Encourage a Missionary – The Gospel Coalition Blog.
Business as Missions in the Wall Street Journal : What’s Best Next
From a WSJ article via What’s Best Next
“Faith-at-work movements have been popular at least since the 1857 businessmen’s revival in New York City, in which noon-hour prayer meetings were so full of the city’s professionals that many businesses closed during the gatherings. But churches have typically kept business people at a distance, needing their money but questioning their spiritual depth. With the business as mission movement, that has changed. In 2004, the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism, founded by Billy Graham, featured a track on business as mission. At a recent missionary conference in Hong Kong, Doug Seebeck says mission leaders apologized to the business people present. They had been guilty of asking for their money while keeping them in the foyer of the church, outside of the sanctuary.”
Business as Missions in the Wall Street Journal : What’s Best Next.
Crossway.blog » Trackback Thursday – In My Place Condemned He Stood
J.I. Packer on what is the heart of the Biblical Gospel? (Excerpt from pp 41):
By this means justice has been done, for the sins of all that will ever be pardoned were judged and punished in the person of God the Son, and it is on this basis that pardon is now offered to us of- fenders. Redeeming love and retributive justice joined hands, so to speak, at Calvary, for there God showed himself to be “just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.”
Do you understand this? If you do, you are now seeing to the very heart of the Christian gospel. No version of that message goes deeper than that which declares man’s root problem before God to be his sin, which evokes wrath, and God’s basic provision for man to be propitiation, which out of wrath brings peace. Some versions of the gospel, indeed, are open to blame because they never get down to this level.
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Crossway.blog » Trackback Thursday – In My Place Condemned He Stood.
7 Reasons to Love and Study the Book of Ruth :: Desiring God
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“Ruth displays the sovereignty of God.
Is God’s bitter providence the last word?… Everywhere I look in the world today, whether near or far, the issue for real people in real life is, Can I trust and love the God who has dealt me this painful hand in life? That is the question the book of Ruth intends to answer.”
7 Reasons to Love and Study the Book of Ruth :: Desiring God.