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West Loop Church
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The imperatives are based on the indicatives
"The imperatives are based on the indicatives and the order is not reversible"
In June 2009, Bryan Chapell, the President of Covenant Seminary in St. Louis and the author of Christ-Centered Preaching, gave a lecture at the Advance09 conference in Durham, North Carolina titled "Communicating the Gospel through Preaching." Regarding...
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The way to Love and Serve
To increase influence and trust, give freedom; to decrease influence and trust, maintain control. Man's agenda is to build himself up, but God is the God of generosity and grace who gives liberally and freely of Himself and to us. Man's default is to keep some "safe" distance, but the Trinity of...
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C.S. Lewis on Pride
"A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you." C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
What a reflective quote from Lewis' chapter on The Great Sin that we heard in the...
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A disciple - a whole person in Christ
An incomplete extemporaneous synopsis of Pastor Lincoln's sermon, "Discipleship," based on Matthew 28:19 (delivered at UIUC UBF; on 8/16/2009) by Ben Toh
1st, a disciple as a whole person. We usually think of a disciple as a pupil, student, learner of Christ, which he is. Then we might have...
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Hindrances in the Ministry of the Word
One great hindrance to holiness in the ministry of the word is that we are prone to preach & write without pressing into the things we say & making them real to our own souls. Over the years words begin to come easy, & we find we can speak of:
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