A Response to Steve Kindle This post is part of our series, Discussing the Law in Scripture. It is written in response to Steve Kindle’s article The Law’s Inevitable Tension between Ideal and Reality. Steve makes a bold and faithful statement here in this article “As noted by scholars from Von Rad, Noth, to Bruggemann,…
by Pat Badstibner, President of World Prayr, Inc.This document was created for The Mill Church leadership as they transition from a staff led to an elder/CTM (deacon) led church order. They are also changing their message to a more gospel-centric one. As they do, they want a gospel-centered leadership model to build on and they…
by Pat Badstibner, President of World Prayr, Inc. Danger, Danger Will Robison they’re going to preach verse-by-verse this morning. Now, before I get started let me say that some of my favorite teachers are expositors and I love good expository preaching, but often it is nothing more than instructions on how to be better, have…
The following video is a sermon preached by Pat Badstibner, president of World Prayr, Inc. He was preaching at The Mill Church in South Carolina. Pat and his team are responsible for the book Walking in God’s Grace.
Last week, I heard a statement, actually a mission, of a ministry; “Helping Christians act like Christians,” while I was driving, I almost wrecked my car. Suddenly, I had images of Tom Cruise jumping over motorcycles and putting on masks. Talk about Mission Impossible! Yet, our minds are often so focused on DO that this…
Question: “We know that because Jesus is our Shepherd, we can find contentment, experience courage, enjoy communion, and live in confidence despite the valley of the shadow of death and the presence of enemies. (My exposition of Psalm 23) … But hearing, meditating, and considering this truth, why do we not regularly find contentment, experience…
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The law drives us to the Gospel. The Gospel saves us from the curse of the law but in turn directs us back to the law to search its spirit, its goodness and its beauty. The law of God is still a lamp unto our feet. Without it we stumble and trip and grope in…