Month October 2011

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Videos for the everyday pastor

Carl’s right we need more videos dealing with everyday pastoral issues for reformed ministers. Let me give you some of the hot potatoes we’re all struggling with.   Collection – bags or box at the back? Communion – Big cups or…

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Kevin DeYoung on Christ the Center

Click here for a recent interview of Kevin DeYoung by our friends at Christ the Center. DeYoung discusses what he’s speaking on in the upcoming Quakertown Regional Conference on Reformed Theology, to be held November 11-12. Click here for more…

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Elementary on sin, my dear Watson

I’m about to speak to some students on sin and unashamedly will be ripping off Thomas Watson’s ‘A Body of Divinity’. Writing on Q15 of the Shorter Catechism – ‘What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the…

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Catching up

I’m back from holiday and see from the internet world:- Presbyterian Profundity! What a great new feature! We don’t hear enough from Presbyterians about Presbyterianism. We’ve been too quiet about our belief that we have the right form of church government. …

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Reading Reflection:

Thoughts and Their Fruit, Spurgeon’s Sermons, Vol. 9 (Baker, reprint 1999) This sermon is on Jeremiah 6:19, “The fruit of their thoughts.” Spurgeon has a way of taking the smallest piece of Scripture and driving the nail in good. Here…

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Love and Discipline Within The Church

The following are excellent resources on the meaning of membership and discipline within the church. Sermons by Jonathan Leeman: Church Membership and Love Church Discipline and Love Jonathan’s outstanding book The Surprising Offense of God’s Love. Video – A Biblical…

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This book has me interested…

Phillip Carey, professor of philosophy and director of the philosophy program at Eastern University, has written a book that has peaked my interest. This is not a recommendation yet because I have just started reading it. But so far I…