Posts with the category “discipleship”

Today's post might not speak to everyone, but I know this is something I had to learn over the past decade and a half as my wife and I worked through and then left behind the prosperity gospel parenti...  Read More

One of the reasons I started The Front Porch was to help our church members (and others who read) be aware of some of the things happening in the culture around us. Different people get their news fro...  Read More

Here's a good article reminding us about the nature of what we are reading when we read the scripture. "What does this mean when we open the Bible? Simply and amazingly this: God is not silent. The wo...  Read More

Well, here is the final edition of The Front Porch for 2024. I thought y'all might enjoy this article about Pat Forrester, the man who has been to space and now works to support churches like ours.I m...  Read More

No article per se today, but a post from Dane Ortlund that I read a couple of weeks ago. I found this encouraging, convicting, and helpful.Sixteen questions to consider asking others at church if you ...  Read More

This is a lengthy, but excellent article that includes some good cultural analysis (much like the article on ambivalent world). The heart of the article focuses on how the overall recession of commonl...  Read More

I've mentioned (even recently) Aaron Renn's positive, neutral, and negative world grid for analyzing how Christians are perceived in our culture. This is a smart article that notes there has possibly ...  Read More

Earlier this year I did a series on marks of a healthy church (there were 9 that we looked at). Here is a great article on C. H. Spurgeon's 5 marks of a healthy church. Are there any you would add?......  Read More

Garrett Kell, a fantastisc pastor in Northern Virginia, writes about how a brave Christian at a Halloween party changed his life."Make a stand for Christ, and trust him to use it for his glory. It mig...  Read More

This past Sunday we had the wonderful privilege to help a young Christian family acknowledge the Lordship of Christ over their family through the dedication of their son. I referenced I Corinthians 7 ...  Read More

John Piper does a really good job here of tackling an important truth about how we approach work. I think sometimes we elevate ministry work and minimize the importance of non-ministry work, not reali...  Read More

When I saw that Kevin DeYoung (one of my favorite writers and cultural thinkers) was interviewing Kirk Cousins (the new quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons), I was really interested. I am not as enthu...  Read More