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The Early Bird Gets The Link

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Here is today’s edition of The Early Bird, happy reading.

We Spent Our Best Years Overseas. And They Were Extremely Hard.

On the eve of that grandbaby’s 16th birthday, I’m looking back and can testify to two seemingly opposing truths: They were our best years, and they were extremely hard.

The Secret Enemy in Your Marriage

In that and many other times we walked away from conflict instead of talking through it, my wife and I fell prey to the secret enemy that hides in every marriage.

God, Thank You I’m Not Like Those Prosperity Preachers

Are there times we must stand firm for the gospel? Absolutely. Should we ever compromise truth to reach people? No. But we must resist the urge to swing to the extremes of constant attack or total apathy, becoming little more than Facebook finger-pointers and armchair tweeters. We must remember the “why” behind refuting errors and witnessing for truth. Souls are at stake. Time is short

Trevin Wax on Declining Baptism and Membership Numbers Within the SBC

Trevin’s 3rd reason here is something we need to evaluate personally and as a congregation.

What the New Testament Teaches about Divorce and Remarriage

This is a helpful overview via outline on the topic of divorce and remarriage.

 

The Early Bird Gets The Link

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Identifying And Developing An Apprentice 

What does it mean to make disciples? What does it mean to equip the church to do ministry? What does it mean to intentionally apprentice others? I believe it means that each and every Christian is responsible to pass along to others the knowledge, skills, and gifts that have been entrusted to us.

How to agree to disagree on important (but not essential) matters

How do we agree to disagree on important, but not essential, matters? Let me offer three suggestions:

Fight Fear with Faith

In observing the times, there appears to be an increasing tension between those of the Christian faith and those who want to smother any expression of that faith. However, it’s absolutely crucial in this tension for us to focus on the right things. It all boils down to heart issues like faith, fear, trust, and discernment on how to live according to the Holy Spirit.

Why I Won’t Be Seeing (or Reviewing) The Shack Movie

I am far more sure that watching and reviewing The Shack would be an unwise and even sinful spiritual decision. For that reason I will not be seeing or reviewing The Shack. Let me explain why.

How Do You Obey God When He Asks You To Do the Impossible?

In all such instances, God calls his people to radical obedience. He calls us to trust Him.

But do we? The issue isn’t just whether we obey. The issue is how we obey. Do we do the impossible thing God is calling us to do with hope and confidence that all things works for good? Or do we obey God with a sense of resignation and despair?
Put differently, do we obey according to faith, or do we obey out of sheer duty?
The Harmless Sins are the Most Dangerous of Them All

They are the ones we explain away with a little shrug, a wave of the hand, a joke. They are the ones we justify over and over again. They are the ones that are so easy to fall into. And, they are ones that are killing us.

The Story Behind John Piper’s Most Famous Attack on the Prosperity Gospel

https://youtu.be/PTc_FoELt8s

The Early Bird Gets The Link 

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Are We Physically Healed by Jesus’ Stripes?
Word-Faith charismatic teachers routinely claim that Isaiah 53:5 is proof that physical healing is inherent in the atonement—that it was won by Christ’s physical suffering.

How God Saved Me from the Prosperity Gospel

As my world collapsed, chaotic feelings assailed me. At one point I screamed at God in disappointment that he’d failed me again. I had exercised tremendous faith; how could he let this happen?

The Danger of Selectively Seeing the Scriptures

As humans we have a tendency to hear what we want to hear and see what we want to see. 

Should the Church View Homosexuality Like Divorce?

Don’t most conservative denominations, after all, welcome members who have been divorced into the fellowship? Why do evangelicals single out one sexual teaching over another? Couples divorce, sometimes remarry others, and yet are welcomed within the congregation. We don’t necessarily affirm this as good, but we receive these people with mercy and grace. Why not, the argument goes, do the same with homosexuality?

Lessons from Martha’s Kitchen

I am convinced though that just as Martha has been distracted and missed the very presence of her Savior, so do we miss the very lesson of these scenes by focusing on comparing Martha to her sister, and ignoring the very Savior these verses evolve around. The point of these scenes is not to showcase Martha’s struggles or Mary’s worship, but rather to teach us how Martha’s inadequacies —and those of every other woman for that matter—are met by the self-sufficiency of a perfect Christ!

5 Benefits from Loving My Small Church

As one member of a small church to the many others who may be reading, let’s remember the value of being in our small churches, lest we forget the gift that God has given us.

3 Dangers of Dividing People By Generation

In his new book, Impossible People, Os Guinness fears that generational analysis has devolved into “generationalism,” an overemphasis on the strong differences between the generations at the expense of the commonalities that unite us. After reading his chapter on this issue, I’d like to borrow a few of his insights and build on them here.