Category Archives: Church Life

An Unregenerate Denomination?

This is a challenging post about the state of SBC churches in particular but probably accurate of the church at large. At the SBC convention last year there was a resolution passed calling for regenerate church membership and integrity in … Continue reading

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Flesh Tank and Peashooter Regulations

Here is the follow up sermon by John Piper to his church went they voted to change their covenant. He preached this sermon January 17, 1982 . . . Reference Colossians 2:16-23 This coming Thursday evening, at the second half … Continue reading

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Total Abstinence and Church Membership

A sermon preached by John Piper to his church – Bethlehem Baptist – on October 4, 1981. He explains why he is calling for a change to the church’s covenant. His sermon . . . There are two questions I … Continue reading

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Temperance

Temperance Temperance is, unfortunately, one of those words that has changed its meaning. It now usually means teetotalism. But in the days when the second Cardinal virtue was christened “Temperance,” it meant nothing of the sort. Temperance referred not specially … Continue reading

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What is “de-Churched”?

Why do most statistics today say that the church is shrinking? I am talking about all churches in general but I am especially interested from a Southern Baptist perspective. I watched much of the motions be presented this week at … Continue reading

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The Biblical Church That Glorifies God

From CampOnThis by Steven J. Camp: Taking some license by illustration with Stephen Covey’s best selling tome, “Seven Habits of Higly Effective People.” Here are three very different, but apt discriptions of church models that exist today. These lists are … Continue reading

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Finding the Right Church to Join

From Joshua Harris’  book Stop Dating The Church. Harris gives 10 questions every person should ask when looking for a church to put their roots down at: Is this a church where God’s Word is faithfully taught? Is this a … Continue reading

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