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Archive for April 10th, 2008

Challenges for Small Churches

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

LifeWay recently surveyed small-church pastors to find out what their biggest challenges are. If you’re in a small church, take heed, and help out your leadership!
Brad Waggoner, vice president of B&H Publishing Group and former LifeWay Christian Resources vice president over the research and ministry development division, shared the findings at “Impact 2008,” a three-day [...]

Piper on Concept Creation, Contextualization

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

John Piper on Preaching As Concept Creation, Not Just Contextualization:
As we think seriously about contextualizing the message of the Bible, let’s remember that we must also labor to bring about, in the minds of our listeners, conceptual categories that may be missing from their mental framework. If we only use the thought structures they already [...]

Singing at T4G

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Bob Kauflin is preparing for the worship time at Together for the Gospel:
During the past few weeks I’ve been preparing song lists for two conferences. The first is Together for the Gospel (Apr. 15-17) which takes place next week in Louisville, Kentucky. I worked with Mark Dever to plan the songs we’ll be singing there. [...]

Al Mohler on Preaching

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Al Mohler takes on the idea of “suggestive and not declarative” preaching in Biblical Authority and the Preacher:
The “suggestive and not declarative” approach well defines most liberal Protestant preaching, but I think it also explains the decline of those churches and denominations.