Douglas Wilson

10 Things An Effective Minister Must Remember

Last week, Doug Wilson offered up these ten essential things that we must remember as ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are simple and straight-forward, and need to be heard and heeded by every gospel minister.  They are reproduced in their entirety from Doug Wilson’s blog below: 1. You are a minister of …

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Preach the Word

The Bible and only the Bible is the ultimate and infallible spiritual authority in the lives of believers. We have fought a series of skirmishes over the infallibility of Scripture. But, who today believes as Calvin did? Who today treats the Bible as Calvin did? Who today thinks that the Bible opened in the pulpit …

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Monday Musings

“In a sinful world, giving offense is one of the central tasks of preaching.  When the offending word is brought to bear against those who have shown themselves to be unteachable, they are written off by that offending word.  When this happens, or there is a threat of it happening, the natural temptation is to …

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Monday Musings

“Sheep are to be kind to sheep. Shepherds are to be kind to sheep. But if a shepherd is kind to wolves, that is just another way to let them savage the sheep. Kindness to sheep is hostility to wolves. Kindness to wolves is hostility to sheep. All attempts to get the wolves and sheep …

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Monday Musings

The biblical preacher is a herald, a steward.  He has been entrusted to declare something that would have been true if he had never been born.  He is to preach it with a strong view of his own ultimate irrelevance.  He is to get into the pulpit and say, “Thus says the Lord…”  And to …

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Monday Musings

“As we will see a little later, apostolic boldness is something people are not likely to understand until they actually hear it, and then they are not exactly sure that it is what they wanted after all!” -Roger Wagner, Tongues Aflame: Learning to Preach From the Apostles (Ross-shire, Great Britain: Christian Focus, 2005), 40. HT: …

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