by Collin Brendemuehl | Jun 19, 2022 | Ministry
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Aug 17, 2021 | Ministry
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Jan 23, 2021 | Ministry
It’s easy to blame revivalism and the “Second Great Awakening” for many of the problems in evangelical and even fundamental Christianity. The movements took us into anti-intellectualism and radical individualism. They turned us into something other than confessional...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Dec 22, 2018 | Book Review, Ministry
During the mid and late 1970s the church were I fellowshipped was making to bold move toward multiple elder leadership and away from the senior pastor structure. It was a bold move at the time. Other local church pastors of the same association took offense to this...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Nov 22, 2017 | Ministry
That’s not to say that we Dispensationalists don’t recognize the convenants. You know, the covenant with Abraham, the one with Moses, and of course the new covenant. Read our theologies, from Scofield to Chafer to Ryrie and so forth. The convenants are...
by Collin Brendemuehl | Dec 21, 2016 | Ministry
Motivation and Structure My goal for this effort is to support believers through the local church. So often parachurch ministry efforts end up being an individual or small group creating an independent organization that, at least it seems, accomplishes little. These...