Book Review: The Deliberate Church (Mark Dever)

The Deliberate Church After many people read “The Nine Marks of the Healthy Church,” they asked, if we realize that our church is unhealthy, what can be do concretely to become a healthy church? In his sequel, Mark Dever, pastor of Capital Hill Baptist...

Book Review: The Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

The two most easily recognizable hallmarks of secularization in America are the exaltation of numbers and of technique. ~Os Guinness, p.24 Here are the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church: #1 Expositional Preaching I will sometimes be surprised by the point of the passage and...

Quote from Martin Luther on the church

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are? ~Martin Luther

Quote from Bill Hybels on fatherhood

“If you’re a dad, what kind of mark are you leaving on your children, especially your sons? Do you realize that your little boys are watching you like hawks? They’re trying to figure out what maleness is all about, and you’re their model.”

Francis Chan quote

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” — Francis Chan