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The Unlikely Marriage of Mission and Institution Part 5

Mike Kelly | April 17, 2025

How the New Testament Did the Great Commission and What it Means for the Church Today —by— Rev. Michael Kelly Executive Director of the Northwest Church Planting Network We Must Change Our Metric for Successful Church Plants. It is often said that it is the leader’s job to define reality. True enough, however, before leaders […]

The Unlikely Marriage of Mission and Institution Part 4

Mike Kelly | April 14, 2025

How the New Testament Did the Great Commission and What it Means for the Church Today —by— Rev. Michael Kelly Executive Director of the Northwest Church Planting Network Our Apologists Must Turn Their Energies to Defending the Church in History Our apologists have been busy these last decades. Atheist zealots have laid waste to more […]

The Unlikely Marriage of Mission and Institution Part 2

Mike Kelly | March 15, 2025

How the New Testament Did the Great Commission and What it Means for the Church Today —by— Rev. Michael Kelly Executive Director of the Northwest Church Planting Network Part 2 The Challenge and Necessity of New Testament Mission in the 21st Century— Historical Trends— Speaking of the advent of voluntary mission agencies, which burgeoned in […]

Sunday Meds

Lord's Day meditations to help you keep going

What Does That Mean?

Mike Kelly | May 11, 2025

…he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:15 “Dr. Reymond, what does that mean, exactly?,” asked a classmate in seminary about today’s verse. It was the kind of question Dr. Reymond answered with unflinching clarity a thousand times about the most complex and controversial mysteries of the Faith. He knew […]

The Words in Red

Mike Kelly | May 4, 2025

…for his word possessed authority. Luke 4.32 Early in my church life, I toted my Ryrie Study Bible into Sunday School and sat down next to a man I later learned was a big deal. And, for good reasons, his legacy continues to this day. We said polite ‘hellos’ and I opened my Bible to […]

Lame Preachers

Mike Kelly | April 20, 2025

Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools. Proverbs 26.7 Wisdom isn’t synonymous with orthodoxy, but everything that isn’t orthodox is foolish, which means the theologically sound preacher can mistake himself for a wise man who wonders why his sermons have no legs. It’s the same error […]