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Christ-centred Communion – Further thoughts (full series)

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:38:28 +0000

Barry Newman has been adding to his series on ‘Christ-centred Communion’ and has now completed his ‘further thoughts’.

Even if you don’t agree with it all, you’ll find it stimulating and edifying.

John Woodhouse on 1 Samuel at Christ the Center

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:00:19 +0000

Recently Moore College Principal John Woodhouse was interviewed on 1 Samuel for the Christ the Center programme.

It’s at 21MB download – see the small [»] play and [↓] download links at the top of this page. Variable audio quality, but well worth hearing.

“Any faithful exposition of God’s word will proclaim Chrust.”

(h/t Faith by hearing.)

Christ Centred Communion – further thoughts (part V)

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:00:58 +0000

“…in all future Passover meal celebrations, the disciples could do nothing other than see in such meals remembrance events that focussed on the death of Jesus rather than on the Exodus event.”
– Barry Newman recaps on his earlier posts on Christ Centred Communion.

Barry’s blog is very helpful in encouraging readers to think about the meaning of Scripture.

Why we still need Confession of Sin

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:01:17 +0000

It’s become trendy for churches to drop a corporate confession of sin. Kevin DeYoung writes:

“If your church does not regularly confess sin and receive God’s assurance of pardon you are missing an essential element of corporate worship. It’s in the weekly prayer of confession that we experience the gospel. It’s here that we find punk kids and Ph.D.’s humbled together, admitting the same human nature. It’s here we, like Pilgrim, can unload our burden at the foot of the cross.”

– read his full article here. Want some help? One place to start is Better Gatherings.

Expecting what God promises

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:01:28 +0000

Richard Baxter:

“What keeps us under trouble is either we do not expect what God has promised [suffering], or we expect what he did not promise [an easy life]. We are grieved at crosses, losses, wrongs of our enemies, unkind dealings of our friends, sickness, or for contempt and scorn in the world. But who encouraged you to expect any better?” (Voices From the Past, 138)

– quoted by Stephen Altrogge at The Blazing Center.

Thomas Cranmer’s ‘True and Catholick Doctrine of the Sacrament’

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:01:21 +0000

In 1990, D A Scales wrote a paper for Churchman on Cranmer’s doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. Church Society has just republished it.

“The doctrine of the Lord’s Supper was not unimportant in Cranmer’s eyes, because that Sacrament speaks of the central doctrines of the Christian faith—of salvation through the atoning death of Christ. It was instituted, in St. Paul’s words, to proclaim the Lord’s death till he come: right views of the death of Christ and right views of the sacrament will tend to go together; false views of the sacrament will tend to obscure an understanding of our salvation through the finished work of Christ…”

See it here – PDF file.

Preparing your church for suffering?

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:00:54 +0000

Matt Chandler and C J Mahaney spoke about suffering from a very personal perspective at the Together for the Gospel Conference.

Watch or listen (Session VIII).

Related: The news story referred to by C J Mahaney.

J.C. Ryle on Success, Humility and Ministry

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:00:54 +0000

J.C. Ryle, meditating on Luke 10:17-24:

“We learn, from this passage, how ready Christians are to be puffed up with success. It is written, that the seventy returned from their first mission with joy, “saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through your name.” There was much false fire in that joy…”

– read the full quote, posted by Ligon Duncan, at Reformation21.

“Even though many of his books are still in print, Ryle seems no longer to be in fashion. This is a pity because his kind of teaching is the answer to the superficial atmosphere in which we live, and in which many who call themselves Evangelicals are hardly distinguishable from those who deny the foundation truths of the Gospel.”

– ‘Bishop Ryle and me’ – David Phipps in Cross†Way (PDF file).