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Feb 19, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Jay Harris |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson
When pastor Jay Harris first went to look at the inner-city building that would house his church, it was discouraging. The parking lot was gated for safety. The interior was grimy and falling apart. The store across the street was vacant. The building to the south was boarded up. It also wasn’t big enough, so he asked about renting a nearby home to use for children’s ministry. As the house owner was showing Harris around, he was also having window air conditioner units installed.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Obbie Todd |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy
In his “Farewell Address” of 1796, George Washington warned the American people about the potential dangers of political parties. In his view, parties would eventually become “potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government.” He’d seen the writing on the wall.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Glenn Wishnew |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy
Considering its title, the book The Great Dechurching maintains a surprisingly optimistic tone. The hopefulness of the authors, Jim Davis and Michael Graham, stems from the fact that, of the 40 million people who’ve left church over the last 25 years, a majority (51 percent) think they’ll one day return. Those 51 percent are the “casual” dechurchers—those who left because of extenuating life circumstances.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Ronnie Martin |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy
“Well, this is fitting, isn’t it?”Those were the words I mumbled to myself as I turned the corner and started limping down the corridor toward the glass-enclosed conference room at Midwestern Baptist Seminary. I’m not using “limping” as a metaphor. My first battle with plantar fasciitis was in full swing, and I could barely walk without wincing in pain.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Ligon Duncan |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy
More Episodes God’s Covenant Confirmed in the Wilderness God’s Instruction in the Wilderness God’s Provision in the Wilderness God’s Rescue Through the Wilderness God’s Sacrifice in the Wilderness“The goal of the covenant, fulfilled in Christ, is eternal communion with God, foreshadowed in the elders eating with the Lord on the mountain and foreshadowed every time you gather with the people of God around the Lord’s table . . .
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Jen Pollock Michel |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy
When Virginia Woolf delivered a series of lectures at Cambridge in 1928—lectures later published as A Room of One’s Own—her subject was women and fiction. “A woman,” she argued, “must have money and a room of her own if she is to write.” Women needed at least 500 pounds a year to permit them experience beyond the confines of cramped domestic life. They also needed space more private than Jane Austen’s sitting room, where she wrote most of her novels.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy |Richard Osborne III
The number of Americans identifying as transgender is sharply increasing. So too are demands for others to use individuals’ “preferred pronouns” in the workplace. Ultimately, religious believers of goodwill may disagree on whether love of one’s neighbor counsels for or against the use of preferred pronouns. But if your employer demands you use another’s preferred pronouns, and you cannot in good conscience comply, can your employer fire you?
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy
Just over 30 years ago, the Alpha course was launched internationally out of the Holy Trinity Brompton church in London. The classes, which explained the basics of Christianity, caught on immediately. Ten years in, the course was annually reaching more than a million people around the globe. Advertise on TGCAttendance peaked around 2012, then stabilized to a million attendees a year—with a brief jump during COVID-19.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Brett McCracken |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy
A recent Financial Times article sparked a frenzy of hot takes when it described how survey data across the developed world showed an “emerging global gender divide” along ideological lines. Author John Burn-Murdoch argued that in places like the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Poland, and South Korea, there’s a widening gap between women (becoming increasingly progressive) and men (leaning more conservative).
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Jared Kennedy |Alex Mark |Andrew Wilson |Derek Rishmawy
More By Jared Kennedy Concupiscence. It’s Not Just About Sex. Are You Suffering? Find Comfort in God’s Vengeance. 10 Resources to Teach Kids About the ResurrectionAre you a lead pastor, local church elder, or church planter? Are you looking for practical ministry help, a word of encouragement, or a community to connect with? The Gospel Coalition is pleased to announce a new resource landing page designed to serve pastors just like you.
