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Church Planting in Grand Rapids?!?

This coming Wednesday, April 16th, at 7pm Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church a “new, old church” will launch its first public gatherings in the heart of the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The church plant is beginning with its Wednesday evening…

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Our Church Plant Bible Study (A Photo)

God is doing amazing things at our Wednesday evening church plant Bible study. One of the parts I love is hearing and seeing the children participate. Last night our children read scripture, read the Westminster Shorter Catechism, and prayed. I…

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The neutrality of bigness

Last Lord’s day, despite the absence of a few, we had an encouragingly large congregation. By some standards, it was large. By others, pitifully small. By ours, with a visiting family of believers, and a number of visitors from the…

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76 pages worth reading

A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Jesus Christ – Mark Jones, CFP 2012 – This book is gold. I can’t remember the last time I read such a small book that has had such an effect on me. At 76 pages…

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What I Wish I Had Learned in Seminary

Seminary changed my life. Spending time both inside and outside the classroom with my godly professors, learning from them, praying with them, and receiving counsel from them revolutionized my walk with Christ. I cannot remember a time when my professors…

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Defending Eutychus

A recent book enjoys the witty title, Saving Eutychus. The book itself is intended to encourage and assist preachers to preach engaging sermons in the hopes of preventing their congregations tumbling out of windows to their death, or something along…

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Are we leaders?

Are we leaders?   Whilst recently in the US I was given a pretty awful book on leadership written by one of the glitterati of the Evangelical world. I’d name and shame but I’d only get battered. When I say…