Three-to-the-Six!
This year I share my birthday with Thanksgiving. I will be 36. That’s crazy. I was happy to enter my thirties, feeling as if my twenties represented a decade of building, and I assumed my thirties would be a great…
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Praying Thankfully: A Thanksgiving Meditation
Do you ever find yourself lost for words when it is time to pray? Most of us do. All kinds of explanations can be offered for this experience, not least of which is the thought that anything we say seems…
Praying Thankfully: A Thanksgiving Meditation
Do you ever find yourself lost for words when it is time to pray? Most of us do. All kinds of explanations can be offered for this experience, not least of which is the thought that anything we say seems…
Preaching Texts You Do Not Understand
One of the challenges that faces the preacher is the extent to which he concedes his ignorance or agnosticism over the meaning of a particular verse while in the pulpit. No preacher wants to lose the authoritative `Thus saith the…
Preaching Texts You Do Not Understand
One of the challenges that faces the preacher is the extent to which he concedes his ignorance or agnosticism over the meaning of a particular verse while in the pulpit. No preacher wants to lose the authoritative `Thus saith the…
Thinking about a PhD?
Because if you are, Westminster Theological Seminary is offering scholarships. A number of us here at ref21 are either current or former PhD students at WTS and I think we can all attest to what a blessing it has been…
Reading Reflection:
The True Believer, Jonathan Edwards, Edited by Dr. Don Kistler (Soli Deo Gloria, 2001) This book is a collection of sermons by Jonathan Edwards. The sermon I am quoting from is titled, Christians a Chosen Generation, preached on verse 1 Peter 2:9, “But…
Books for Pastors…
Pastoring and pain go together. If you are involved in pastoral leadership then you will experience the barbs of criticism, the grief of your own sin, and the loneliness of leadership. Biblical counsel from wise brothers, therefore, is essential.If you…
Keeping Snakes out of the Garden
Typically good stuff from Carl Trueman on the vital role of elders: Greg Beale has a fascinating section on elders in his new A New Testament Biblical Theology, pp. 819-23. Here he underscores the importance of the office for protecting…
Upcoming Sermon Series…
Beginning in January (Lord willing) will I will launch a series of sermons through the book of Philippians. I have been spending some time outlining the epistle and the following is what I have come up with: Partners in the…