This week’s encouragement in our Gospel Jump-Start Series comes from Jerry Bridge’s comments on 2 Corinthians 5:18-21. The passage says…
Earlier this week I was ready to throw in the towel on this whole coronavirus quarantine. Like everyone else, I’ve modified routines and adopted new habits, but I just didn’t want to do it anymore. I was done, and everyone around me (which was only my wife and kids) knew it. I was weary of social-distancing…
Often at NewBranch you will hear it stated that, as Christians, we have been freed from the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and one day we will be freed from the presence of sin. In our Justification we are freed from the penalty of sin in that Christ took our penalty upon Himself and paid it for us (Gal. 3:13). Through Christ’s victory in His life, death, and resurrection He also freed us from the power of sin…
We are going to take a break from our Gospel Jump-Start Series this week. During the sermon yesterday we briefly looked at Psalm 67. The Psalm is a prayer asking the Lord to bless Israel for the purpose of making Him known to all the earth, and this toward the end of the nations praising Him for His saving power…
One of the resources Pastor Ken suggested in his blog titled “Don’t Waste Your Pandemic!” is a book titled “A Praying Life” by Paul Miller. The purpose of the book is to help readers cultivate a vibrant prayer life. I highly commend this resource to you.
I found this quote from Miller extremely challenging and convicting…
Back in 2013, I heard a sermon by John Folmar on evangelism that is still impactful to me today. To this day, I still remember hearing Pastor Folmar say:
Before you talk to your friend about God, talk to God about your friend.
This week’s post in our Gospel Jump-Start Series shows how preaching the Gospel to ourselves produces true humility in us. Philippians 2:4-5 says…
There has never been a time like this in our lives, and there probably never will be again. An appropriate word for this season of our lives, albeit a tad overused, is “unprecedented”. It’s true. The current world health crisis caused by the coronavirus is without precedent in our lifetimes…
When it comes to praying for our church family, many of our prayers probably focus on the specific needs of our fellow members. This should certainly be a part of our prayer lives and is to be commended. However, how should we pray for the corporate life of the church in general?
This week’s post in our Gospel Jump-Start Series shows how preaching the gospel to ourselves moves us toward others. It is the gospel that saves and it is the gospel that motivates and fuels the the Christian life. Listen to how Mark Dever, in his book Discipling, explains how the gospel moves us toward others…