Tag: in church
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So, What Is Gossip?
Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. We know that gossip is wrong. We know that it is best for us not to participate in gossip, listening to it or ourselves speaking it. Gossip causes conflict and, in most cases, is not accurate information. One of our church members approached…
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Dancing in Church, is there a place for the performing arts?
We know that what we win people with is what we win them to. So, we intentionally reject any sort of attractional ministry in the expository church (the church that wishes to operate by God’s word alone and for the glory of God alone). The congregational music of the expository church follows certain biblical principles,…
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Music Matters and Matters of Music
One of the greatest dividers in both society and in the church over the centuries has been music. Most people love music. It has become an almost essential part of our worship gatherings. It has become such an integral part of our services that when people perceive that it is not done properly it divides…
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Is There Really a Place for Preaching and Teaching in the Local Church?
There are a few different philosophies regarding the place of preaching and teaching in the church. Admittedly, I am a little biased. I am a preacher. Different churches have chosen to do things in different ways. There are churches who have much teaching and little of anything else, churches who limit the sermon time to…
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Dear Teenager,
When I was a preteen and a teenager growing up in church, I remember feeling as though there was no place for me. We had youth group, and our youth group averaged more than one-hundred students on Wednesday evening. We went to camps, went on retreats, did missions projects, had cool t-shirts, had awesome music,…
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What is Church Membership? Part 1
Over the next six months in our Family Meetings at Grace, we will be following the outline of Thom Rainer’s I Am a Church Member. We want to discover, or rediscover, what it means to be a healthy part of a healthy local church because, in a wretched world, it’s easy to forget or lose…
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Grace is Deeper Than Mere Salvation
I have heard it over and over again, “Grace is giving someone something that he does not deserve.” When I hear this, it is said often to describe the giving of salvation from God. This way of viewing grace is a good starting point for our understanding. When we leave grace here, it insinuates two…
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A Regenerate Generation
This is a message for my own generation, but it applies to every generation. Are we to bear the sins of our fathers? My generation almost left the organized church altogether. I intend this message to be taken with deep thought about what we are doing as the church in our time. In large scale,…
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How Not to Engage the Bible
Before we begin, I have a news report regarding one of our sister-churches: RUSSELLVILLE, AR—Roughly half of the churchgoers at First Baptist Church Russellville died of starvation Sunday after the pastor tragically went 15 minutes over his standard sermon time, local sources confirmed. “We don’t know if the pastor simply lost track of time due…