Study

The Costs of Free Coffee

Twice this week I have received free coffee at two different restaurants. On Tuesday a markerter for a new apartment complex was buying coffee for everyone who came into Starbucks. Today, I indulged in Chick-Fil-A’s free coffee for February deal. I like coffee and I like to work and study in coffee shops and restaurants. …

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Preaching and Praying Yourself Hot

Earlier this week I took time to listen to a short video on sermon preparation featuring Bryan Chapell, Mike Bullmore, and Alistair Begg. The entire video is worth your time if you are a preacher or a teacher of the Bible. It was Alistair Begg’s summary of sermon preparation that jumped out at me.  As …

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A Season For Work

“Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good.  They do not pray; they do not read; they do not search the Scripture…The call is: watch, study, attend to reading.  In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read cannot be read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot …

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Knowing Our Book

“It is a sin and shame not to know our own book or to understand the speech and words of our God; it is a still greater sin and loss that we do not study languages, especially in these days when God is offering and giving us men and books and every facility and inducement …

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Pastor’s Work = Book Work

“The Word of God that saves and sanctifies, from generation to generation, is preserved in a book.  And therefore at the heart of every pastor’s work is book work.  Call it reading, mediation, reflection, cogitation, study, exegesis, or whatever you will–a large and central part of our work is to wrestle God’s meaning from a …

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Feed Your Soul, Feed Your People

“What a preacher Augustine became in his passion not to be ‘silent’ about the all-satisfying pleasures at God’s right hand!  ‘Can any man say enough when he speaks of you?’  He explained to his own congregation how his preaching came to be: ‘I go to feed [myself] so that I can give you to eat.  …

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Pastors, Read & Study!

“What has exceedingly hurt you in time past, nay, and I fear, to this day, is lack of reading. I scarce ever knew a preacher who read so little. And perhaps, by neglecting it, you have lost the taste for it. Hence your talent in preaching does not increase. It is just the same as …

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Monday Musings

“Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They do not pray; they do not read; they do not search the Scripture… The call is: watch, study, attend to reading. In truth you cannot read too much in Scriptures; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you …

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Monday Musings

I was thankful to hear Dr. Billy Graham say, when addressing some six hundred ministers in London in November, 1970, that if he had his ministry all over again he would study three times as much as he had done.  “I’ve preached too much and studied too little,” he said.  The following day he told …

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