“It is a sin and shame not to know our own book or to understand the speech and words of our God; it is a still greater sin and loss that we do not study languages, especially in these days when God is offering and giving us men and books and every facility and inducement …
I just thought that we could all stand to be reminded that when Christ said it was finished upon the cross, he meant it. Pastor, it is not your job to save, redeem, ransom, or atone. It is not your calling to be sacrificed–it would do no one any good anyway because you are sinful. …
Travis Agnew does a great job of looking at The Arrogance of My Generation’s Church Leaders. Just because you are a critic of yesterday’s church does not make you an expert of today’s church. I have seen too many people in my generation grow a church by making fun of and demeaning the church of …
In the conclusion of his biography of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin entitled, The Legacy of Sovereign Joy, John Piper offers four lessons that we can learn from the lives of flawed saints who have gone on before us. Below they are listed along with some Scripture passages to reflect on. Pastors, as inadequate as you …
Perception is reality. I learned this well early in my ministry when, in a sermon, a senior adult lady in my church misunderstood a statement and believed that I said you couldn’t be a democrat and be a Christian. Politics aside, my greatest disappointment from this encounter was the realization that she had not heard …
John Piper seems to often have a way with words. As a “retirement age” pastor, he has the experiential weight to criticize modern ideas of retirement in light of the gospel. This video does that well and is a rallying cry to all of us toward gospel centered stewardship.
“The Word of God that saves and sanctifies, from generation to generation, is preserved in a book. And therefore at the heart of every pastor’s work is book work. Call it reading, mediation, reflection, cogitation, study, exegesis, or whatever you will–a large and central part of our work is to wrestle God’s meaning from a …
“What a preacher Augustine became in his passion not to be ‘silent’ about the all-satisfying pleasures at God’s right hand! ‘Can any man say enough when he speaks of you?’ He explained to his own congregation how his preaching came to be: ‘I go to feed [myself] so that I can give you to eat. …
The Gospel in Human Contexts by Paul Hiebert. Hiebert’s book is written with a focus on international missions, but in the glocal we find ourselves in today, cultural anthropology and missiological focus is needed as much in the Christian West as in the far East. What then is the relationship between the gospel and human …
Jesus did not neglect his natural responsibilities in light of his Spiritual responsibilities. He cared for his mother, even from the cross. February 28, 2010–A Word of Care–John 19:25-27 from Malvern Hill Baptist Church on Vimeo.