Posts with the category “discipleship”

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Meet the Astronaut Who Left NASA to Support Healthy Churches
December 20th, 2024
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
by Matt Davis
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15 Questions to Ask at Church
December 11th, 2024
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
by Matt Davis
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Low-tide Evangelism
December 6th, 2024
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
by Matt Davis
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A Transition to Ambivalent World
December 5th, 2024
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
by Matt Davis
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Spurgeon's Five Marks of a Healthy Church
November 1st, 2024
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
by Matt Davis
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The Night that Changed My Life
October 31st, 2024
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
by Matt Davis
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Should We Baptize Holy Infants?
October 17th, 2024
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
by Matt Davis
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Defining Success in my 9-to-5 Job
August 23rd, 2024
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
by Matt Davis
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A Real Life Example of Fruitful College Ministry
July 17th, 2024
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
by Matt Davis