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13 Aug

Back to School. Back to the Gospel.

August 20, 2024
By Church Works Media

It’s that time of year...Back-to-School! As this season gets underway, most parents are busy preparing their children for another year of learning and growth. While new backpacks, school supplies, and convenient (but healthy) lunches feel like pressing needs, there is...

27 May

Devotional Thoughts, Guest Post

Am I Gifted for Ministry?

May 27, 2024
By Guest Author

This excerpt by Dave Doran comes from Gospel Meditations for the Church (Day 15: “Gifts for His Glory”).“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one...

08 Apr

Devotional Thoughts

A Beautifully Mundane Life

April 8, 2024
By Chris Anderson

This post by Chris Anderson comes from Gospel Meditations for Mothers (Day 4).We live in the day of the superlative. Normalcy is so twentieth century. Everything today must be “hard core” or “radical” or “extreme,” even in the church. (Bonus...

01 Oct

Perspective

Brick by Brick: The Lasting Benefits of Expository Preaching

October 1, 2020
By Chris Anderson

I recently read an excerpt from Paul Wolfe’s My God Is True! which provides an encouraging reminder of the importance and power of patient, long-term faithfulness in preaching the Word. Wolfe encourages preachers not to seek to “wow” our hearers...

02 Sep

Perspective

People Need the Lord

September 2, 2020
By Chris Anderson

Pastor Alex Montoya has ministered in the inner city of Los Angeles for almost 50 years. In his book Preaching with Passion he addresses the need of the pastor to proclaim the Word of God with zeal, not a dry, cold stoicism....

01 Jan

Perspective

Parenting with Authority, Affection, and Affirmation

February 28, 2020
By Chris Anderson

God has given my wife Lori and me four amazing daughters. Raising them has been the most important thing I've done or will do. I love being a pastor. I look back fondly on my years as a church planter....

04 Dec

Devotional Thoughts

Time Flies

February 28, 2020
By Chris Anderson

We just introduced Gospel Meditations for Young Adults (available now to preorder). Here is a preview of Day 4 from Chris Anderson. Read Psalm 90. “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12) I...

27 Nov

Announcements, Perspective

Introducing “Gospel Meditations for Young Adults”

February 28, 2020
By Chris Anderson

Every generation tends to think they have it harder than everyone else. We’ve all heard the joke about how our parents had to walk to school. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways. As the father of four daughters who are now...

19 Nov

Devotional Thoughts

The Value of a Soul

February 28, 2020
By Chris Anderson

Matthew 16:26 is sometimes obscured by the epic texts that surround it. Matthew 16 contains Peter’s proclamation that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God (v. 16). It contains Jesus’ promise to build His church and lay...

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