Prayer: Default Praying or Praying “According to the Scriptures”
Often our praying becomes rote. We pray the same things over and over. (Sadly, that is assuming we do pray regularly. As a short personal quiz: How often do you pray? How long do you generally commune...
View Article2018 Theology Conference: The Gospel, Compassion and Justice and the EFCA...
The Evangelical Free Church is committed to the inspired, inerrant, authoritative, and sufficient Word of God. We are grounded in the gospel and tethered to the text of Scripture. We also affirm the...
View Article2018 Theology Conference: The Gospel, Compassion and Justice and the EFCA...
Following the flow of Article 8, we chose the theme of our Theology Conference for these reasons. First, it is important to address this historically. Even looking at our Free Church history is...
View Article2018 Theology Conference: The Gospel, Compassion and Justice and the EFCA...
In conclusion, it is always true that “unless the Lord builds the house, those who build labor in vain” (Ps. 127:1), and yet we are especially aware that this Conference is one in which the enemy would...
View ArticleEFCA Theology Conference: Prayer
This week is our annual EFCA Theology Conference. This year’s theme is The Gospel, Compassion and Justice and the EFCA. These are important and weighty issues we are discussing. We affirm and give...
View ArticleBilly Graham Has Died and Is “With the Lord” (1918–2018)
“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints” (Ps. 116:15). “Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am...
View ArticleJohn Newton (“Amazing Grace”) and Harriet Tubman (“Moses”)
One of the things I appreciate about regularly reading the Bible and church history is to see how God has faithfully preserved his people through his Word. There is much I learn through this...
View ArticleWhy Does the EFCA Adhere to the “Significance of Silence”?
In the Evangelical Free Church of America, we focus on the essential truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ while allowing differing understandings of some doctrines within certain theological parameters....
View ArticleEFCA Theology Conference 2018 Recordings: Introduction (Theology Podcast)
I am grateful and encouraged by what the Lord did at and through our Theology Conference: The Gospel, Compassion and Justice, and the EFCA. God provided to us the right speakers who were committed to...
View ArticleMeditations On And For The Passion (Holy) Week of Christ
This week is referred to as the Passion Week or Holy Week of Christ. It begins with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, what has traditionally been referred to as Palm Sunday, his final entry into...
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