What commentaries should you read?
This question is more difficult than you’d think. One of the first things you discover is that commentaries are often answering questions no one is asking. A fringe benefit of…
Paul Levy
Don’t Read Sermons!
Rick Phillips has stirred me from my slumber! I would want to argue the exact opposite, that far too many expository commentaries are being published. I don’t know if I…
Why is a central Prayer Gathering in a church so important?
I expect in your church family your leaders implore you quite often to come to the Central Prayer Gathering. It may be that you wonder why they make such a big…
What’s the function of unction?
One of my favourite philosophers, Inigo Montoya, said to Vizzini ”You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means” I expect with the…
Dangerous Calling – A Review
Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling:Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Leadership. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015, PB, 240pp. I have been the Pastor of the same congregation for 12 years. I enjoy…
The Happy Pastor
One of my favourite books on preaching is ‘Preaching – The man, the message, the method‘ by Geoffrey Thomas who this year will celebrate being the minister of Alfred Place…
Interview with the Librarian (3)
The final part of an interview with Sandy Finlayson, (part 1, part 2) on his two books ‘Unity and Diversity‘ and ‘Bitesize Biography – Thomas Chalmers‘ These men accomplished…
Interview with the Librarian (2)
For Part 1 of the Interview with Sandy Finlayson see here You are not uncritical of the men in this ‘Unity and Diversity’, particularly ‘Rabbi Duncan’, I found your chapter…
Interview with the Librarian (1)
Sandy Finlayson and I have never met. We often correspond; sharing a great love for the Two Ronnies and the winding up Carl Trueman. Sandy is not only the Director…
Digging in!
We live in a West London suburb. We’re about 20 -30 mins into the centre of town. Crossrail, which is going to link West to East London, will change the area in which…