Help Me Strengthen the Global Church
My name is Ken Nichols. I pastor a local church in Georgia, and I want to see God glorified among the nations. I have been given the tremendous opportunity to travel to South Asia in January, 2012 for the privilege of teaching and training pastors and leadership of a burgeoning Church Planting Movement among Hindu and Muslim background believers. Our goal is to train pastors, and thereby affecting the hundreds of new local churches that have sprung up in the last 18 months. The impact of our ministry to them will be hard to quantify, but the potential for great Kingdom impact in an area where God is moving is tremendous. I will be travelling with three other men from our local Baptist Association and we will be joining forces with a local IMB missionary. The...
Read MoreSometimes I Get In the Way
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Do you have a problem with letting God lead? Do you contend with God for supremacy? Do you find yourself getting in the way?
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It’s Thursday evening and I’m waiting for a counseling appointment to show up. I thought I’d pass along some articles I encountered the past few days. They are here because I found them interesting, and/or very helpful. I hope you will, too! Enjoy! Saturating Your Children With God’s Word – Aaron Menikoff posted this helpful summary of a little booklet by Andy Davis. This is helpful for all parents who need to be reminded of their mission to teach their kids about the God of the Bible, using the Bible. The Grace of God in the Bible – Dane Ortlund posts a helpful review of the grace of God as seen in every book of the Bible. You may not see some of these items as grace, but grace is a thread throughout the Bible. The Church That...
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Some articles I encountered this week. They are here because I found them interesting, and/or very helpful. Enjoy! JESUS LOVES ME, THIS I KNOW Jim Elliff, always a good read, reminds us the depth of God’s love in this touching post on the CCW website. On Covenantal Church Membership Nathan Finn writes an informative and touching article blending church history and personal testimony on the beauty and meaning of Covenant Church Membership historically espoused by Baptists. 4 Resources for teaching church history to young children Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY posted this helpful guide to recommended resources for children’s ministry. As a Pastor looking to expand the theological and historical depth of our children’s curricula, I...
Read MoreExcursus: The Line of Boaz
As part of my research for a sermon on Ruth 3, I wrote this brief excursus to help understand Boaz’ risky acceptance of Ruth. God was at work before Boaz was even born to prepare Boaz for the Moabitess who was to come, and through whom the line of David, and of Jesus, would come. As of this writing I have not read anything on the fact of Boaz’ family prior to his marriage to Ruth. We aren’t given alot of information on the family, but what we are given provides a great deal of insight, in my opinion, of the man Boaz. Boaz is a wonderful OT example of righteous living. His righteousness and kindness to Ruth and Naomi were a result of his acknowledgement of God’s righteousness and kindness to Israel. He had great reason to be sensitive to...
Read MoreBy Faith Moses
Recently I had a very mini-retreat in Duluth, GA. I was reading through the book of Hebrews in a Holiday Inn and was hit with a verse I had read many times before. Readers (both of you) are probably familiar with it as well, it says that by faith Moses “considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.” – Hebrews 11:26 ESV What is the reward Moses looked to? What was the reward that so motivated him that he would spurn political and material prominence as a member of the house of Pharaoh in order to be deliverer of God’s people? The great reward the writer of Hebrews suggests is God in Christ Jesus! It was God Himself. I pray that by God’s help my love for Christ would be...
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