Twenty seven of us from our church, Gospel Baptist Church, went to Costa Rica last week, June 26-July 4th, to do mission work. I preached in Pastor Jeremy’s church and our young adults ministered in Children’s church. Our main goal, however, was to build a fourth cabin for the campers who started camp at Camp Brittney on [...]
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Ministry Opportunity in Costa Rica
Posted: July 6, 2010 in Church MinistriesTags: Camp Brittney in Costa Rica, Gospel Baptist Church
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Worship Wars: Worshiping How We Worship instead of Worshiping God
Posted: May 20, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral Theology, The ChurchTags: Albert Mohler, Benjamin Keach, Ed Stetzer, He Is Not Silent, John Hammett's Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, Mark Driscoll, Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church, Willow Creek, Worship Wars
GBC Sermon Audio – May 19 & 26, 2010 I heard this illustration from two different preachers on the controversy of church music and thought some of you would apprecate it and may want to file it away for preaching on Romans 14 and Christian Liberty. That is what I did. When I heard it [...]
How to Observe the Lord’s Supper
Posted: April 29, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: Lord's Supper, Robert Anderson's Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry
Though procedures vary on serving the Lord’s Supper here is a very basic way until the pastor and church develop other alternatives. More elaborate instruction can be found in Robert Anderson’s The Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry. I discuss the meaning of the Lord’s Supper at Different Views on Baptism, Part Four: Transubstantiation. [...]
“The Church Business Meeting” for Dummies
Posted: April 13, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: Robert's Rules of Order, The Church Business Meeting
It is almost 7:00 p.m. and you are about to chair your church’s business meeting. You ask yourself, “Self, what if someone wants to amend the original motion, how will I handle it?” “Self, what if the discussion gets a little out of hand and I need to table the motion in order to do some [...]
Does “The husband of one wife” disqualify all divorced men from pastoring?
Posted: January 14, 2010 in Church Ministries, Pastoral TheologyTags: A. Duane Litfin, D. Edmond Hiebert, Homer Kent, Robert C. Anderson's The Effective Pastor, Wayne Grudem
Robert C. Anderson writes, “For centuries it has been debated whether or not the biblical injunction that an elder or overseer be the ‘husband of one wife’ means that a divorced person may never have any place within the professional ministry” (The Effective Pastor: A Practical Guide to the Ministry. Chicago: Moody, 1985, 5). The [...]
Week 4: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Orthodoxy verses Orthopraxy: Eph 4:1-6
Posted: October 23, 2009 in Church Ministries, Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Five Streams of the Emerging Church, Leadership Magazine, Mark Driscoll, Scott McKnight, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods
Week 4 Assignment: Read pages 115-131 in MacArthur and Eph 4:1-6 and comment. Emerging Church Theologian, Scott McKnight states that “a notable emphasis of the emerging movement is orthopraxy.” McKnight wrote a very helpful primer on five basic themes in the Emerging Church in a Leadership article entitled “Five Streams of the Emerging Church.” The five [...]
The Noncontroversial Topic of Church Music, Part Two
Posted: April 21, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", Church Ministries, Music, Pastoral TheologyTags: Christianity Today, Folk Culture, Fundamentalist, High Culture, Liberals, Mark Driscoll, Michael Jackson, Pop Culture, Rock music, The Radical Reformission
Mark Driscoll passionately believes the church must impact culture, and rightly so. “To be in reformission, we must embed ourselves in a culture and develop friendships with lost people so that we can be informed and avoid making erroneous judgments…. As a missionary, you will need to watch television shows and movies, listen to music, [...]
The Noncontroversial Topic of Church Music, Part One
Posted: April 20, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", Church Ministries, Music, Pastoral TheologyTags: Benjamin Keach, Charles Spurgeon, Charles Wesley, Dean B. McIntyre, John Calvin, Mark Dever's Polity: Biblcial Arguments on How to Conduct Church Life, Martin Luther, Rich Warren, The Purpose Driven Church
The powerful influence of music is seen in 1 Sam. 16:14-23 when David, the greatest harpist in Israel, calmed troubled King Saul with his music. “Aristotle said, ‘Music has the power to shape character.’ Satan is clearly using music to do that today. The rock lyrics of the 1960s and 1970s shaped the values of [...]
“Let the Dead Bury the Dead,” Part Two
Posted: March 31, 2009 in Church MinistriesTags: Cremation, John Davis, William Phipps
While cremation is not strictly forbidden in Scripture, it is clearly not the pattern. When practiced in the Old Testament, cremation was the exception as in war and in both cases, the wars were because of disobedience. The war at Mt. Gilboa (1 Sam 31) was the result of King Saul’s disobedience and the war [...]
“Let the Dead Bury the Dead” Part One
Posted: February 13, 2009 in Church MinistriesTags: Cremation, G. Campbell Morgan, John Davis, Mummies, Norman Geisler
Jesus said, “Let the dead bury the dead” (Luke 9:60). What are your options in burying your dead? You can mummify your deceased like the Egyptians. They preserved the dead because the body was the home of the individual’s spirit as he or she traveled through the After Life. Another option is freeze drying the [...]
