Each Friday, ChurchandGospel.com will recap some of the main stories, editorials, articles and events for South Carolina’s churches from the past week. Footnote 1: The SBC’s North American Mission Board (NAMB) and the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) both focused on helping churches in our country with the the Send North America… Continue reading Friday’s Footnotes Aug, 7 2015
Silence, Shouts and Roars for Life
By now, we all know the terrible truths embedded in the first four videos from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). Our stomachs turned inside out, and our outrage amplified. However, the story has gone mostly unnoticed by the major news networks, apart from Fox News. Not surprisingly, the majority of Americans remain mostly unaffected… Continue reading Silence, Shouts and Roars for Life
Being Discipled to Make Disciples who Make Disciples
Despite the great flurry of activity that marks our local church gatherings, we quite often fail to produce disciples who make disciples. That is, while the heart of the church’s mission is to make disciples (Matt 28:16–20), the work of our churches and the individuals who comprise a local church usually reflect a number of… Continue reading Being Discipled to Make Disciples who Make Disciples
Parenting my Children away from Idols and toward Jesus
Few things grieve this father more than watching my own children fight each other. Their conflicts that reflect the struggles that I had with my sisters and that my dad had with his brothers and so on usually do not emerge from a rotten child afflicting a poor, good child: the tale of a dastardly… Continue reading Parenting my Children away from Idols and toward Jesus
The Seams of the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings
In my last post, I argued that Jesus is the message of Moses’ book, The Torah (Gen-Exod-Lev-Num-Deut). In the coming weeks, I hope to help readers test whether I have rightly understood the Torah. As such, today I want to begin the process of defending this rather bold and biblical claim.
If We Believed Moses
I am positive that I did not truly understood the implications of John 5:46 the first few times that I read it. Indeed, most days I am still not sure that I have fully recognized the scope of Jesus’ claim at that moment. As Jesus faced conflict from the Pharisees, He answered them by defining… Continue reading If We Believed Moses