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Worship at Metro East (3)

There are four principles that guide Metro East as preparations are made for our corporate worship gatherings: 1. Worship must be guided by God’s Word.“The Bible provides us with God’s directions for the form and content of Christian worship” (Duncan,…

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Churches Should Train Pastors

Al Mohler has written a helpful article for Tabletalk on the role that churches should play in training pastors. Sadly this is not a vision that many churches have embraced.

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All In The Family

The discouraging statistics regarding young people who leave the church after high school say more about the family, I believe, than about the church. I do think that entertainment/event driven youth ministry ultimately fails in its stated purpose. But, in…

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Worship at Metro East (2)

How we worship is not unimportant. It matters to God how His people worship Him. We are not welcome to bring to God whatever we please so long as our “hearts are in the right place.” There are reasons behind…

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Southern Baptists In Decline

The SBC’s Annual Church Profile (ACP) for 2007 should remove all doubt: The Southern Baptist Convention is in decline. Tom Ascol has posted on this today. I would like to know if anyone would dare to speculate on why the…

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Three Cheers for J.I. Packer

Justin Taylor has posted a letter that J.I. Packer and several of his fellow Anglican ministers sent to Bishop Michael Ingham. The bishop threatened to strip Packer and the others of their ordination. The reason, of course, is that these…