Church is Not a Business

Far too often, we determine success according to a business model rather than a biblical model....
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On May 21, Dr. Putman will be joining us at FBA for a churchwide Sunday school class on worldview before preaching the Sunday service that morning....
Don Whitney is putting on a workshop in our area about his book Praying the Bible, and the church has invited us to bring a group....
Today, we're sitting down to talk with Dr. Fred Sanders....
Today, we're sitting down to talk with Dr. Madison Pierce....
Today, we're sitting down to talk with Dr. Brandon Smith. ...
This post will address two points that some give in opposition to expository preaching....
The Sunday morning sermon is not a Ph.D. seminar or a demonstration of the preacher’s intellectual capacity....
An expository sermon should always have the biblical text guide the flow of the sermon. ...
Far too often, we determine success according to a business model rather than a biblical model....
Expository preaching forces the preacher to show Jesus on every page...
Believing in and knowing the Triune God is what makes Christianity, well, Christian. In other words, a Trinity-free Christianity isn’t Christianity...
Scripture should confront us in our consumerism...
Revelation isn’t a coded text that God doesn’t want us to comprehend; it’s a book that God wants to use to illicit worship toward him....
My resolution for 2020 is simple: let my speech be gracious so that it will be Christ who shines through me. ...
As we approach the celebration of Christ's birth, here are nine books that made us love Jesus more....
This shutdown, however long it may last, should cause us to remember how essential the ministry of the local church is to us....
The purpose of prayer is expressing dependence, not on self, but on the only One who is capable of redeeming our brokenness....
At the heart of bearing others burdens is a proper understanding of the gospel as the answer to our greatest self-inflicted burden, sin....
I’ve heard it said that if you want to figure out a church’s theology, you can simply watch their worship service. Here are five simple ways to help revitalize your worship services....
Cultural Christianity attempts to boil down faith to a simple title of “Christian” when in reality being a believer in the finished work of Christ affects everything about your life....
Learn to stop overlooking the small words of Scripture. Take it from me: they just might save your life....
The most important thing to remember during our hopeful return is that we’re not gathering for solely for ourselves....
“The youth group is dying, so we’re leaving,” is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Panic sets in for parents when their kids complain about church. Despite good intentions, the results are often dreadful....
Far too often, we determine success according to a business model rather than a biblical model....
Keep ReadingThe purpose of prayer is expressing dependence, not on self, but on the only One who is capable of redeeming our brokenness....
Keep ReadingAt the heart of bearing others burdens is a proper understanding of the gospel as the answer to our greatest self-inflicted burden, sin....
Keep ReadingCultural Christianity attempts to boil down faith to a simple title of “Christian” when in reality being a believer in the finished work of Christ affects everything about your life....
Keep ReadingCoronavirus may prevent us from gathering together for corporate worship for a time, but it cannot prevent us from proclaiming the gospel through equipping the saints and evangelizing the lost....
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