From the category archives:

Reformed Charismatic

Knowledge Puffs Up

November 8, 2009

This quote from Doctor Martyn Lloyd-Jones is taken from his Ephesians series of sermons which I keep going back to. He challenges those who settle for a purely intellectual dimension to their Christian faith. Like so much of what he said it is if anything MORE relevant to us today than it was when [...]

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John Piper The Charismatic

October 23, 2009

John Piper’s website has many places where he reveals a charismatic or as some call it continuationist perspective. Earlier in the week he argued that even in the New Testament the gifts of the Spirit were non-authoritative and inferior to the Apostles teaching:
The apostles viewed their teaching as from God in an authoritative, inerrant [...]

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30 Years Ago Today John Piper Responds To God’s Voice

October 14, 2009

Justin Taylor has served us well by putting together a fantastic post explaining how Piper responded to God’s call to the pastorate 30 years ago today. There are a number of links in the post that are all worth following.

I will share just three extracts here which combine to make it clear that [...]

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Charismatics Are Not All Crazy

October 11, 2009

My friend Marcus Honeysett has been talking about the gap that still remains in places between the “reformed” and the “charismatic” wings of the church. This gap is one that I have in some ways been very aware of all my life, and yet, having grown up in a family of churches that combines [...]

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Love Truth and Power. Guest Post From Andrew Fountain

September 2, 2009

Andrew is a dear friend of mine and leads Newlife Church Toronto. He blogs at In Christ. Andrew has an interesting story in that he was principal of Toronto Baptist Seminary when the “Toronto blessing” hit. Circumstances seemed to conspire to force him into making a choice between his reformed heritage and a charismatic experience. [...]

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Terry Virgo At Mars Hill Church, Seattle

July 28, 2009

Terry is currently in the USA with Mark Driscoll’s home church. He has actually been in the USA for most of the time since Together On A Mission. He was there when a sudden explosion of interest in his sermon on prayer happened. By the way, if you watched that video but never made [...]

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A Reformed Charismatic Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland – the 11th Largest City in the UK

October 11, 2008

In 2009 Newfrontiers is starting a Belfast Church — the eleventh largest city in the UK. The church plant website went live recently, and they have already opened a Belfast Church plant Facebook group.
The emerging vision for the church plant is:

To see a Christ-centered church planted in Belfast city, on a mission seeking a transformed [...]

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Reformed Charismatic Church Plants in European Cities

September 17, 2008

One of the passions of this blog is to do everything I can to promote the growth of reformed charismatic churches. I have spoken already about the drive to plant Newfrontiers churches in the top 100 cities of America, and highlighted a plant in Chicago.
Today, in an update to news discussed during the prayer meeting [...]

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SERMON – A Song Of Hope – Psalm 121

September 5, 2008

On the 24th of August, I preached a sermon at Jubilee during our summer series on some famous psalms. I took Psalm 121, which served as a starting point for me to share some of the most important planks of my personal doctrinal framework—a framework that has sustained me through hard times.
As blogging around here [...]

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2008 Top Posts Numbers 7 and 8

August 30, 2008

The 8th post popular post on my blog at the moment is the summary of my interview with Wayne Grudem.
At number 7 is my post defining “What is a Reformed Charismatic?” Don’t miss two closely related posts — “Wanted – 1000 Reformed Charismatic Churches” and “I Don’t Want Balance, I Want It All.”

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Driscoll in Australia

August 21, 2008

Driscoll had a fascinating and substantial video interview with the Sydney Anglicans which I just had to draw to your attention.
Intriguingly they are happy to describe him as “Apostle to the generation wired“!
The fact that he can be well received by both Newfrontiers and the Sydney Anglicans says a lot about the ministry [...]

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US City No. 3 – A Newfrontiers Church in Chicago

July 31, 2008

No. 3 in the list of top 100 US cities being targeted by Newfrontiers is Chicago. I got a facebook message this week asking me if I knew of a Church there for a student visiting. Incidentally, do feel free to be my friend, join my blog network or even share and comment on [...]

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WANTED – 1000 Reformed Charismatic Churches

July 23, 2008

In case the title of this post completely mystifys you and you have not heard of this group of Christians, I have written previously about them in “What is a Reformed Charismatic?”
The phrase “1,000 reformed charismatic churches” has been going around in my head on and off for awhile now. Because several different applications of [...]

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