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Fall 2024

Volume 30, Number 4 · Three articles

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  1. Learning to Say No For the Sake of God’s Yes Richard Burnett
  2. A Firm Foundation Lorenzo Small
  3. For the Next Generation John P. Burgess

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In this issue

  1. Scripture

    Learning to Say No For the Sake of God’s Yes

    From Mark 2, Burnett walks through Christ's habit of dining with sinners and tax collectors. What does the divine yes to the wrong people require us to refuse? Especially now, in a moment when the church most wants to say yes to everything.

    Richard Burnett30 min read

  2. Discipleship

    A Firm Foundation

    A sermon on Matthew 16, where Peter recognizes Jesus as the Christ. Small preaches against the language of dying churches, hearing in Christ's promise to Peter the foundation that no rate of decline can shake: the gates of hell will not prevail against the church Christ is building.

    Lorenzo Small8 min read

  3. The Presbyterian Church

    For the Next Generation

    At the close of his seventh decade, Burgess takes stock alongside the Bonhoeffer of the prison letters, asking the same question Bonhoeffer asked: who am I? The address is a meditation on identity, ministry, and what we hope to leave the generation that follows.

    John P. Burgess22 min read
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