Tim Keller: Five Marks of a Vital Church

Five Marks (or “Vitamins”) of a Renewed, Vital, Revived, and Dynamic Church From the sermon: Blueprint for Revival; Introduction 2 From the series: Revival by Dr. Timothy J. Keller August 5, 1990 Acts 2:37-47 Duration: 41:01 5 things: 1.  Vibrant Worship 2.  Intimate, Exciting, Loving Fellowship and Community 3.  Teaching With Theological Depth 4.  Effective Communication [...]

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Dallas Willard on Design Arguments

From The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard: Two Harmful Myths Unfortunately, a number of myths associated with this part of disciple training on behalf of Jesus are now dominant. One is the idea that questions about God as creator have recently been conclusively settled in the negative by the progress of “scientific knowledge,” and that [...]

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Tim Keller: Gospel Theologizing

This is part 2 of my notes and comments on Tim Keller’s talk on The Sufficiency of the Gospel in a Postmodern World. Part 1 is here. 20:00 Six point approach to communicating the gospel in a post-modern society. The first 3: 1. Gospel theologizing 2. Gospel realizing 3. Gospel urbanizing. 1. Gospel Theologizing Jonah 1:1 The [...]

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Lectionary for May 10, 2009

I am meditating on 1 John 4:7-21 this week. Perfect loves casts out fear.  The following is the NASB with links to the Greek Lexicon at Crosswalk.com.   1Jo 4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love [...]

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