You Are the Salt of the Earth

“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.   You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.  Nor do [...]

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Dying Churches: Close, Renew or Re-Start?

Running a Google search on church plants, church re-starts and renewing dying churches, what should I be directed to but today’s post from iMonk, commenting on the church-planting movement in the newly-formed Anglican Church in North America.  Dang if iMonk and I aren’t thinking along the same lines AGAIN.
His initial post is great — recommended [...]

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Quotations from John Stott and Friends

At the top of my list for this summer’s reading was John Stott: The Making of a Leader by Timothy Dudley-Smith.  Subtitled The Early Years, the over-400-page volume reads like a mini-history of Evangelical Anglicanism in England during the 1900s.  (I’ll be interested in reading Volume 2 one of these days!)
John Stott, now 88, was [...]

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Sermon on the Mount: Blessed Are You…

Great multitudes followed Him — from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.  And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him.  Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom [...]

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Jesus Calls His First Disciples

“And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.  Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”  They immediately left their nets and followed Him.
Going on from there, He [...]

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