How Shall We Then Preach?

G. N. Barkman

If you think the subject of “preaching” is for preachers only, you would be mistaken. With the reformation taking place in American churches today, there has been a new emphasis upon expository preaching. Many “laymen” now consider expositional preaching one of the marks of a healthy church, and those who have been exposed to it are often reluctant to return to topical preaching again.

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Too Harsh with member who left church?

TylerR

I’d like some feedback on whether I was too harsh with a letter I sent to a former church member. Here’s the scenario:

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8 Reasons Your Excuses for Not Practicing Church Discipline Don’t Work

Filings

“The objections and hesitations are understandable, but they’re also a bit too self-conscious. They betray a little too much concern with what other people think. Awash in the spirit of our non-judgmental age, … church discipline feels acutely judgy, and that can’t be good for business.” - 9Marks

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Social media strategy & the church

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“By the time churches have fully embraced Facebook, many of their members and those they are trying to reach may have left it behind.” - BPress

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Should Hymns Keep the Theology of Their Writers?

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John Piper needed “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” to match a sermon, so he wrote two new Reformed verses. Many of writer Thomas Chisholm’s fellow Methodists, who “sing their theology,” couldn’t sing along. - CToday

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Rebel force attacks Bapt. churches in Burma

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“On the border with China, soldiers of Myanmar’s largest ethnic rebel group, the United Wa State Army (UWSA), attacked the churches in the rebel’s autonomous region in Shan state, according to Christian leaders.” - BPNews

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