Entries Categorized as 'Discipleship'

Mark Dever on Christians Seeking God’s Will

Date February 20, 2008

Christians Seeking God’s Will (Original Source)
By Mark Dever
This will be brief. The way many Christians practice seeking God’s will before they make a decision amounts to spiritual and emotional bondage. Christ has died to give us liberty and freedom (Rom. 6; Gal. 5; I Peter 2). We can only know the truth [...]

Of First Importance

Date November 13, 2007

When the apostle Paul wanted to remind the Corinthian church of the gospel, he wrote,
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures (1 Cor. 15:3).
Christ died for our sins. The gospel is the solution to our sin problem.
In 2008 [...]

Were Getting It Wrong - The Church Of Laodicea

Date April 25, 2007

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HT: Ben Davis, Symphony of Scripture
At Symphony of Scripture, Ben Davis has taken the time to provide some great notes to go along with this video. Enjoy.

Martin Luther on being a disciple

Date March 21, 2007

Here is a good word from a very young Luther about being a disciple, before you become a leader.
“In holy and divine matters one must first hear rather than see,
first believe rather than understand,
first be grasped rather than grasp,
first be captured rather than capture,
first learn rather than teach,
first be a disciple rather than a teacher [...]

The Cost of Discipleship by Leonard Ravenhill

Date March 17, 2007

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Also, a must read is Ravenhill’s book, Why Revival Tarries