The Experience of the Average Churchman You get an email from your elder with a polite reminder that “every idle word” will be required an account and that “maybe you should tone down your online rhetoric”…because the older ladies do see those posts (which surprises you, because you know the elders agree with your sentiments). Or perhaps a lady hears …
Congregational Worship in an Individualistic Age
By Pastor Gabriel Render We Do Church Different Here The Irony of Modern Worship I found myself this past summer sitting with extended family on the Lord’s Day at church while vacationing out of state. First, I should point out that it is a unique blessing to visit family and have the majority not only be believers but wishing to …
“The Ordo Odios: Situational Awareness, Threat Detection, and the Church”
Revised Article Published at Truthscript : Ordo Odios: Rightly Ordered Hates – TruthScript Rightly Ordered Affection and Hatred This year the term ordo amoris made its way back into the common vernacular thanks to the Vice President of the United States. The concept of rightly ordered loves is attributed to Augustine of Hippo- but its foundations can be found in …
National Day of Prayer 2025
Nampa Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast: Pastor Gabe’s Prayer for the Families of Nampa The State of Idaho recognizes Almighty God to be the one and only potentate by whom blessing in our society is possible. Our own Constitution reflects this in its preamble: We, the people of the State of Idaho, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its …
Sermon Series Overview: SMBC Distinctive “Psalm and Congregational Singing”
We will be beginning the first of a six-part series (to be spread out over the next couple of years) on SMBC Distinctives. Our six key distinctives are as follows: Reformed, Baptist, Expository Preaching, Postmillenial (Optimistic Eschatology), Psalm and Congregational Singing, and Family Integrated. For this first 4 week series we will be focusing on the way that our church …
Biblical Foundations of Confessional Practice
By Pastor Luke Lemberg 4/11/25 Published at Biblical Foundations of Confessional Practice – TruthScript Christianity is a confessional religion. In fact, every religion, if serious, has a confession of some kind. Judaism has the “Bar Mitzvah” by which a young Jewish Boy or Girl is declared to a “son of the Law” (which it what “Bar Mitzvah” means in the …
Is Germany’s Present America’s Future?
With all of the seemingly constant winning right now, this isn’t intended to throw cold water on anything, but to hopefully steel the collective resolve of the Church against squandering the opportunity before us. The tide seems to be turning at a satisfyingly savage pace. But that also should caution us that it could quite easily go the other way. …
Raw Spiritual Milk for Seed Oil Christians
by Pastor Gabriel Render February 4, 2025 Published at Raw Spiritual Milk for Seed Oil Christians – TruthScript / www.truthscript.com Is That Even Milk? It’s easy to pick on the obvious charlatans and the deceived masses with regards to spiritual maturity and doctrinal robustness. One needn’t look far to see clips of various abominations being played off as Lord’s Day …
Sermon Series Overview: 1-3 John
Epistles of John Pastor Gabriel Render 1/14/25 The Letters of John contain many well-known verses. Most anyone can cite that “God is love”, and many recall a verse about “walking in the light” or perhaps overcoming the world because “greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.” But many Christians have not taken the …
Sermon Series Overview – Advent
Advent of the Messiah Pastor Gabriel Render 12/11/24 Christmas season is upon us and as Providence would have it, I found myself with a 4-week slot of Sundays leading up to Holiday. As such, I thought it fitting to preach on the first Advent of Christ, the incarnation, and various Messianic prophecies. For those not familiar with the term “Advent” …
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