Pastors and Their Critics: Pastors
With due awareness of the liabilities, I would like to venture on to the delicate ice of how pastors should receive – and congregants give – criticism. The reason I feel emboldened to do so is that I have had,…
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Church Leaders’ Conference at Cairn University
If you are a pastor or elder in the greater Philadelphia area, you may be interested in the upcoming Cairn Church Leaders’ Conference, on Thursday, April 11 from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM . The conference is designed to encourage, support, and…
Words of Wisdom
This is a very helpful little video with Pastor Albert Martin, who is one of my all time favorite preachers and a friend as well. It has been a joy to know him for almost two decades and to constantly…
An Orientation to China’s Reforming Churches: Part Three
Editors’ Note: This is the third and final installment of this series. You can access part one here and part two here. Part III: Church Development, Presbyterianism, & China The need for church development, so acute in China, exists…
An Orientation to China’s Reforming Churches: Part Three
Editors’ Note: This is the third and final installment of this series. You can access part one here and part two here. Part III: Church Development, Presbyterianism, & China The need for church development, so acute in China, exists…
“How can this guilty sinner flee”
C.M. (Godre’r Coed) How can this guilty sinner flee The judgement that is mine?How can a wretched man escapeThe punishment divine? Tell me where wrath and mercy meet;Show me God reconciled.Where can a rebel find true peace,Rest for a heart…
Christianity that cuts
It is sometimes difficult to work out exactly what people are doing when they open their Bibles and let their eyes pass over the pages of Scripture. An observer might surmise that one of the things that they are not…
Was Socrates braver than Jesus?
”This ordeal he refers to as a ‘bitter cup which he ardently prays may, if possible, be taken from him, so that he does not have to drink it. What is this cup? Is it physical suffering from which he…
The unavoidable fact of our utter inadequacy
Preachers are meant to be conduits for the pure word of God. Sometimes the pipe gets dirty and what comes out is impure. Sometimes the pipe gets clogged and the truth gets impeded. Some preachers have poorer settings: trickle, fine…
Augustine: For Professors, Poets and Pastors
I remember the first time I read Augustine. I was a final year undergraduate at Cambridge on the Classical tripos but taking the course, Christian Life and Thought to A.D. 451 from outside my faculty. Those were the days: university…