touching the third rail!
I go away to the Algarve for a week of sunshine and tennis only to stumble back to Ref 21 and find that the whole thing has gone politics mad. Talk of the left and the right, Trueman trying to sell his new book on his…
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Al Mohler on Reading
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Learning to Preach from Hebrews
Can we learn something of how to preach from the Epistle to the Hebrews? We have heard that the first three rules for understanding a passage are “context, context, and context.” Strange, then, isn’t it, that the author of Hebrews introduces almost…
Randy Alcorn on his most painful experience in ministry
Ministry is filled with painful experiences. A pastor who is doing his work properly will regularly help shoulder the sufferings of others. Additionally, though, he will have to shoulder (usually alone) his own pain. And the pain is frequent. A…
“Churches only have idea problems.”
By now many of you have surely heard the news that the world famous Los Angeles Church, The Crystal Cathedral, has filed for bankruptcy. It is indeed a sad thing when a church runs aground financially. But considering this particular…
Pray for our suffering brothers and sisters in North Korea
From Randy Alcorn: On the second night of the Third Lausanne Congress taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, an 18 year-old girl from North Korea shared her story. She was born into a wealthy family, her father an assistant…
Putting Cultural Relevance in its Place
Ed Stetzer has no problem with cultural relevance. Sometimes there is an almost knee jerk reaction against any mention of cultural relevance. But, by speaking in English and serving coffee rather than warm goats blood at our gatherings we are…
Evangelism, Conversion, and the Local Church
Mark Dever delivered the a helpful message at Boyce College this week. Check it out HERE.
Another reason why I like Carl…
I have not yet read Carl Trueman’s Republocrat. I am planning to. Actually I am eagerly awaiting an autographed copy (ahem…). I will resist the temptation to actually comment on the merits or demerits of the book until I have…
October 21: 2 Thess 2
“Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to be with him: I beg you, my friends, not to be so easily confused in your thinking or upset by the claim that the Day of…