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“Our plain and cheering duty is therefore to go forward — to scatter the seed, to believe and to wait. Yet must there be expectancy as well as patience. The warrant of success is assured, not only as regards an outward reformation, but a spiritual change of progressive and universal influence. The fruit of Ministerial labour …
Martyn Lloyd-Jones: ‘Take no thought for the morrow,’ means ‘Do not be guilty of anxious thoughts about the morrow’. It does not mean that you do not take any thought at all, otherwise the farmer would not plough and harrow and sow. He is looking to the future, but he does not spend the whole …
J.C. Ryle on the parable of the Widow and the Judge (Luke 18:1-8): “Do we ever feel a secret inclination to hurry our prayers, or shorten our prayers, or become careless about our prayers, or omit our prayers altogether? Let us be sure, when we do, that it is a direct temptation from the devil. …
My friend Ben Stevens recently published an article over at Christianity Today about how four books on filmmaking helped him in his pursuit to become a better preacher and teacher of God’s Word. He writes, “if your role requires you to understand great narrative, it may be beneficial to consider what it means to create …
Today, June 30th, for 24 hours only, Shepherd Press is offering a list of 6 titles for $1.99 each. This sale began at 12:00am Eastern on June 30th and will conclude at 11:59pm. There will be a limit of 10 copies of each discounted item per order. There are a lot of great resources here for the …
John Piper recently wrote an interesting article on the tone that we should pursue when in the pulpit. There is a lot of sound advice here, especially coming from someone who has been preaching for 31 years. Piper writes: What tone should you aim at in preaching? My answer is: Pursue the tone of the text. …
“Be humbled, walk softly; down with your topsail. Stoop, stoop! It is a low entry to go in at heaven’s gates.” – Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ.
“Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue (cf. Col. 2:18, 23). Even “humble” attitudes can be masks of pride. The English, it has been said, take pride in not praising themselves! Rather, humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in …
Last week, Doug Wilson offered up these ten essential things that we must remember as ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are simple and straight-forward, and need to be heard and heeded by every gospel minister. They are reproduced in their entirety from Doug Wilson’s blog below: 1. You are a minister of …
“We have the text, we believe, as a gracious gift of a God determined not to leave us to our own devices. What happened on Easter, namely, Jesus coming back to us, refusing to leave us alone, intruding among us, is what happens each Sunday in the reading and preaching of the text. Scripture, read …