The Aquila Report

1 day ago | theaquilareport.com | Scott Morefield

There is something weirdly serene and almost holy about experiencing the death of someone you love dearly this intensely and this close. I don’t know any other way to describe it, but it changed me in ways I’m only beginning to fathom. The mind wanders during such ordeals, especially in the quiet moments before and after. We all have to die, but not everyone gets a good death. If there even is such a thing, it’s all up to interpretation.

6 days ago | theaquilareport.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris

The dizzying possibilities of our age expose how far our technology has outrun our ethics—how our ability to do things has overwhelmed our ability to think about whether we should do those things. As with various biotechnologies, artificial intelligence has raised questions our society is not prepared to answer. Sadly, for the most part, neither is the Church.  In a scene from the PBS animated series Arthur, Buster the rabbit asks in shock, “You really think someone would do that?

1 week ago | theaquilareport.com | Jim Denison

“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14). Suppose, however, that a group of people knows better but does not do better, that God calls them to be the “salt of the earth” but have lost their “taste” and effectiveness by compromising with what they are supposed to be converting (Matthew 5:13).

1 week ago | theaquilareport.com | Matthew Adams

Without public prayer throughout the worship service, the congregation is robbed of the opportunity to learn and participate in God’s people’s prayers. Reformed churches include public prayer in their worship services because we view it as a biblically commanded and essential element of corporate worship. The practice is rooted in both Scripture and theological conviction. Remember, Jesus Christ calls the temple the “House of Prayer” (Matt. 21:13).

1 week ago | theaquilareport.com | Jim Denison

We must be biblical in every dimension of our preaching and ministry. When we get one part “right,” we can feel justified in ignoring the rest. But God disagrees. On July 8, 1741, Jonathan Edwards preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” arguably the most famous sermon in American history. This message played an instrumental role in the First Great Awakening, one of the most significant movements of God’s Spirit in human history.