Category Reformation21

Two recommendations:

I resonate with what Derek says about Mondays, and suppose that many preachers do.  I find a full day of preaching and ancillary ministry to be very draining.  This summer a homiletics professor cited research indicating that preaching a one-hour…

“That Baptist pastor flew to Adelaide in Australia the next week. And ten days later, in the middle of a three day series in a Baptist church in Adelaide, a woman came to him for counseling. He wanted to establish…

For some reason there have been a number of articles in the mainstream press about the Bible business. See, in order of appearance: Publisher’s Weekly The Wall Street Journal The New Yorker

In this interview conducted by Mark Dever, “Pastor and author Thabiti Anyabwile describes the beliefs and history of Islam, his own experience as a Muslim, the contradictions in the Koran, as well as the way for churches to approach evangelism…

Rodders, jealousy will be the undoing of you!

I saw the new Bond movie at the weekend.  Nothing like it to make me proud to be English.  After all, it just couldn’t be done by, say, the Welsh.  `The name’s ap-Llymrys Jones, Gwynfor ap-Llymrys Jones’ just doesn’t cut…

A dear friend from the UK told me this weekend that he’d been catching up on the Ref21 blog and noticing that we seemed to have far too much fun! Well, he is a friend and his perspective skewed as a…

First thing Monday morning is my main time of prayer for our missionaries.  In reading and praying over recent missionary correspondence this morning I came across a good reminder from Robert Speer: “In this supernatural cause (world missions), which rests…

A number of years ago in a Baptist church in Crystal Palace in southern London, the Sunday morning service was closing and a stranger stood up in the back, raised his hand; he said, “Excuse me, pastor; can I share…