“We must take it all”
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the unity of Scripture: Higher criticism is man picking and choosing out of the Scriptures, believing what he likes and rejecting, or ignoring, the rest. It…
Jeremy Walker
Review: “Pastors in the Classics”
Pastors in the Classics: Timeless Lessons on Life and Ministry from World LiteratureLeland Ryken, Philip Ryken & Todd WilsonBaker Books, 2012, 192pp., paperback, $16.99ISBN 978-0-8010-7197-3 This is an odd book.…
Clarity and discretion
When the New Testament deals with sexual morality, it does so unfailing clarity and reassuring discretion. Take, as an example, the instruction of the apostle in 1 Thessalonians 4: Finally…
Review: “The Public Ministry of Christ”
The Public Ministry of ChristWilliam G. Blaikie This volume, first published in 1883, bridges the disciplines of Christology and pastoral theology, and its author will need no commendation to those…
Preaching Christ
A last snippet, for now, from Thomas Foxcroft’s The Gospel Ministry once more, fairly early on in his sermon, exhorting himself and other ministers to preach Jesus in every sense:…
“In Eden’s sinless garden”
7 6. 7 6 (St. Alphege) In Eden’s sinless gardenA man and woman stood,Each crafted in God’s image,And both entirely good. The serpent entered Eden,And entered both their hearts;And neither…
The gospel ministry
The following quote is from Benjamin Wadsworth’s introduction to The Gospel Ministry by Thomas Foxcroft: The right performance of this work [of gospel ministry] is attended with many and great…
Pastoral courage
As promised, a first snippet from Thomas Foxcroft, who advises us as to the correct and necessary balance and relationship between public and private ministerial responsibility. He gives this specific…
Behold!
The apostle John had seen many wonderful things in his life. He had lived alongside the Christ for three years, testifying that if all the things that Jesus did “were…
Review: “The Gospel Ministry”
The Gospel MinistryThomas FoxcroftSoli Deo Gloria (RHB), 87pp, hbkISBN 978-1-56769-061-3 This unusual but highly profitable little volume is a preacher’s own ordination sermon. It was preached in 1717 by Thomas…