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…
Make sure you read Dr. Richard Belcher’s excellent review of C. John Collins’s Did Adam and Eve Really Exist!
C. John Collins, Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? Who Were They and Why You Should Care (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011) Dr. C. John Collins, professor of Old Testament at Covenant Seminary, has written a book that deals with a subject…
C. John Collins, Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? Who Were They and Why You Should Care (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011) Dr. C. John Collins, professor of Old Testament at Covenant Seminary, has written a book that deals with a subject…
“It is of great importance in preaching the Gospel, to discriminate between the different characters to whom we deliver our message, and to separate the precious from the vile. If this be neglected, the wicked will hold fast their delusions,…
I think we spend much wasted time trying to protect the identity of our weaknesses—even from our own selves. I’m not suggesting that we wear them on our sleeve, unloading on every person who asks us how we’re doing. But…
The qualifications that Paul lays down for pastoral ministry in the church of God are not focused on a man’s gifts so much as his graces. In 1 Timothy 3.2 and following, as Carl pointed out, we do not have…
Continuing our thoughts on pastoral character, here is William Arnot: The more that the teacher absorbs for himself of Christ’s love, the more benefit will others obtain from him. . . . Those who drink in most of the Master’s…
