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Aug 5, 2024 | 
es.9marks.org | Mike McKinley
Aproximadamente tres semanas después de comenzar mi trabajo como líder de la plantación (revitalización) de una iglesia, pude ponerle palabras a algo que me había estado molestando. Nuestro grupo estaba formado por 15 personas que habían venido de la iglesia que nos envió, así como por algunas personas que quedaban de la congregación que estábamos tratando de revitalizar.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Fred Sanders |Mike McKinley |John Owen
Prayer to the Holy Spirit“The Holy Spirit is at once the sphere and the atmosphere of prayer,” wrote W. H. Griffith Thomas (1861–1924).1 He made this remark while explaining that while it is possible for Christians to pray to the Spirit, for the Spirit, and in the Spirit, the Bible overwhelmingly focuses on the latter. Prayer in the Holy Spirit, understood in its full Trinitarian context, is the very shape of New Testament devotion.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Randy Newman |Mike McKinley
Format: Crossway+ members receive 30% off books. Learn more. Availability: In Stock Retail Price: $14.99 Other Books in This Series: Sort through Your Questions and Find a Path from Doubt to Faith
Do you have honest questions about faith? Or have you walked away from faith altogether? Perhaps you’ve been part of a faith tradition, but you’ve begun to question parts of what you’ve been taught.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Mike McKinley |Drew Hunter |John Owen
A Two-Part QuestionIt seems like there are two parts to that question. One is, Is it true? Does Jesus really want to be friends with me? Does he delight in me? And then the other part is, How could that possibly be? The answer to the first part is really clear in Scripture. He does want to be friends with us. He delights in us. He’s not a Savior who’s come and holds us at a distance. You can see that all over the pages of the New Testament.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Fred Sanders |Mike McKinley |John Owen
His Spirit Is with UsTo grieve the Holy Spirit is something we’re told is possible and we’re commanded not to do. There are two ways of thinking about it. One is you could ask the question, Can God be grieved by humans? Can we cause God pain? Can we make God suffer? Can we ruin God’s day?
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Fred Sanders |Mike McKinley |John Owen
The Holy Spirit Is Not a Curly Haired Young FellowA lot of people have had a lot of unhelpful ideas about the Holy Spirit, but for sheer oddness, it is hard to find a stranger case than the portrayal of the third person of the Trinity as a beautiful, young, winged, curly haired boy with a widow’s peak. The most influential example of this particular error happened in Bavaria in the eighteenth century. Here is the story.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
theaquilareport.com | Mike McKinley
There is only good news when you consider Jesus, for what you see is that the most wonderful person loves you like a husband loves a wife. As great as your sin may be, it is swallowed up by the greatness of your husband’s love. He has committed himself to you, and he has sworn to be yours forever. How do we carry out a relationship with God the Son? While John Owen argues that we live out our friendship with the Father with his love at the center, when it comes to the Son, it’s all about his grace.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Mike McKinley |Fred Sanders |John Owen
Three Things to AvoidJohn Owen points out three things that we see in the New Testament in terms of how we can go about cherishing the work of the Spirit. He points out in Acts 7 how Stephen accuses his heroes of always resisting the Holy Spirit. And so Owen reminds us not to resist the Spirit’s work. Well, how would the people in Stephen’s day have resisted the Spirit? He said they did by not listening to the prophets, by not listening to God’s Word.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Nathan Knight |Thabiti Anyabwile |Mike McKinley
Worldly Failure“Well done, brother. Well done.” We had gathered in a restaurant on a sultry summer day in the heart of DC. Outside, laborers set up fences and hung bunting in preparation for the July 4 celebration. Inside, we were having a celebration of our own. About a dozen men had gathered to celebrate the ministry of one of our planters. It was a wonderful occasion. Dozens of people walked by without interest as the brothers laughed, prayed, and encouraged this precious man.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Mike McKinley |John Owen |Kelly M. Kapic |Justin Taylor
A Relationship with GodHow we carry out a relationship with God the Son? While [John] Owen argues that we live out our friendship with the Father with his love at the center, when it comes to the Son, it’s all about his grace. That isn’t something that Owen came up with on his own; we often see the grace of Jesus highlighted in Scripture as a particular gift to be experienced on a regular basis by his people (e.g., Rom. 16:20; Gal. 6:18; 1 Thess. 5:28; 2 Thess. 3:18).
