From Sally Lloyd-Jones: When I go into churches and speak to children I ask them two questions: First, How many people here sometimes think you have to be good for God to love you? They tentatively raise their hands. I…
Whilst I was away I received news that the Archbishop of the FIEC John ‘Shakin’ Stevens has succumbed to blogging – Dissenting Opinion. It looks very interesting indeed, a mixture of news, comment, theological comment, excellent expository thoughts and of…
AKA, A Question of Character 6 Our present age is interesting both for its preoccupation with youth and its demand for the instantaneous. Such has not always been the case in human history: legend had it that Confucius was born…
AKA, A Question of Character 6 Our present age is interesting both for its preoccupation with youth and its demand for the instantaneous. Such has not always been the case in human history: legend had it that Confucius was born…
Brian Maiden, Brian who?!? Brian is the minister of Parr Street Evangelical Chruch in Kendal, Cumbria. He trained at London Bible College in the 60s; the same era as people like Terry Virgo and Peter Lewis. He was a minister…
The Meaning of Marriage, Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller (Dutton, 2011) I thought I would share another reflection on this wonderful book. My husband, Matt, and I are faithfully plodding through it together on the weekends. We love it so…
On Sunday I preached part seven in the current series through Philippians. It is entitled How to Live When Dying is Gain and can be listened to or downloaded HERE.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ classic Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure has been published in a new edition which includes a CD of the Dr’s sermons on the topic. If you have never read this excellent work it would be worth your…
After reading Dr. Trueman’s and Pastor Walker’s posts on this topic, the reader will permit me a fair amount of reticence to post on 1 Timothy 3:4-5. My colleagues’ thoughts have been very convicting to my own rather green pastoral…
In The Christian Ministry – which, incidentally, every pastor and would-be pastor ought to read – Charles Bridges weighs in on the matter of pastoral character. Again, he is not so much taking up and directly expounding a passage like…
