The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man’s, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are …
I received two books in the mail yesterday and have spent some time with each of them, not enough to give a detailed review, but enough to give some insight. The first and the one I’m most excited about is the brand new volume on Galatians and Ephesians from the Reformation Commentary on Scripture. This …
Christian preachers, more than all others, should know that people are starving for God. If anyone in all the world should be able to say, “I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary, beholding thy power and glory,” it is the herald of God. Who but preachers will look out over the wasteland of secular …
Yet if there is a realm in which we should be aware of spiritual warfare, surely it is in the realm of preaching. Surely the enemy would love to disrupt or damage the proclamation of God’s Word, the presentation of the Gospel, the encouragement of believers and the praise of God. -Taken from Biblcalpreaching.net
David Hall recounts a story from Magnus Pyke on the results of Critical Scholarship In the 1950s and 1960s many British towns were radically redeveloped. Whole areas of a town were pulled down and rebuilt in an econical, efficient, and scientific way. The unfortunate result, Pyke observes, was that when the people came back to …
Though I have not been able to give this book the time it deserves, I have spent an hour or so working through Ministry by the Book by Derek Tidball. The concept for this book is interesting and helpful. Tidball essentially builds a pastoral theology by examining pastoral roles as they are presented and handled …
Tim Challies reviews Going Public: Your Child Can Thrive in Public School. This looks like a great book for Christian parents trying to raise Christian children. This is not a book that is anti-homeschool or anti-Christian school. The purpose is not to convince you that you ought to place your children in the local public …
For the Month of October, 2011, Think is available as a free audio download at www.christianaudio.com. John Piper is a staple in the libraries of many Christians. In fact, his writings have had a profound impact on the face of evangelicalism in America over the past twenty years. It is not surprising, then, that Piper …
Let this exhort you, then, Christian, to petition God for the holy determination and bravery you must have to follow Christ. Without it you cannot be what you profess. The fearful are those who march for hell (Revelation 21:8); the valiant are they who take heaven by force (Matthew 11:12). Cowards never won heaven. Do …
Martyn Lloyd-Jones: ‘Take no thought for the morrow,’ means ‘Do not be guilty of anxious thoughts about the morrow’. It does not mean that you do not take any thought at all, otherwise the farmer would not plough and harrow and sow. He is looking to the future, but he does not spend the whole …