This week’s article: Bible Verses Prosperity Preachers Wish Didn’t Exist
Article link: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/bible-verses-prosperity-preachers-wish-didnt-exist “Every so often when discussing the prosperity gospel, I hear proponents say, “But surely God doesn’t want us to be poor, does he?” This is viewed as a trump card, as if t
Continue Reading ?This week’s article: How To Find Your Rival Gods
Article Link: How to Find Your Rival Gods (by Tim Keller) “Idolatry is not just a failure to obey God, it is a setting of the whole heart on something besides God. It is impossible to understand your heart or your culture if you do not discern the counterfeit gods that in
Continue Reading ?This Week’s Article: 5 passages your pastor wishes you’d stop taking out of context
Article Link: 5 passages your pastor wishes you’d stop taking out of context (from Christianity Today) ” … This isn’t surprising to most church leaders, who often see verses plucked from their homes to serve other purposes. To better understand these tricky situation
Continue Reading ?This week’s article: How smartphones are changing us & effecting our happiness
Article link: How smartphones are changing us & effecting our happiness (by Andy Crouch) “In a single decade we have dashed from a world with zero smartphones (if you don’t count the clunky pre-2007 ancestors of the iPhone) to a world with 2 billion of them. We’ve taken a ki
Continue Reading ?This Week’s Article: Where is Your Identity?
Article Link: Where is Your Identity? (By David Powlinson) “Who are you? What gives you your identity? On what foundation are you building your sense of self? Your answer, whether true or false, defines your life. “Wrong ways of defining who we are arise naturally i
Continue Reading ?Forgiveness has a vertical and a horizontal dimension
“In addition to this parable, the Bible is full of calls to forgive. There are two that almost seen contradictory: Mark 11:25 and Luke 17:3. Mark 11:25 says. “And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may fo
Continue Reading ?Lakeshore’s Top Ten Books
As part of the Life@Lakeshore newcomers course, we have selected 10 books that we confidently recommend for further reading on various topics. Lakeshore Church’s Top Ten Books: The Trellis & The Vine (Col Marshall & Tony Payne) Stop Dating the Church (also
Continue Reading ?J.I. Packer on Guidance and more…
Pitfalls from Packer on Guidance, from LT’s blog (This post from LT’s blog was featured on the church bulletin last Sunday) J.I.Packer in his book ‘Knowing God’ has a chapter on Guidance. Here is a summarised version of a list of pitfalls to us being guided by God. 1. Un
Continue Reading ?Train Wreck Conversions, Refugees, Church Smalltalk and more…
Links to a few articles recommended in association with some recent sermons… My Train Wreck Conversion, from Christianity Today “The word Jesus stuck in my throat like an elephant tusk; no matter how hard I choked, I couldn’t hack it out. Those who professed t
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