There’s a one year old Baptist Church in the US with a membership of fifteen that has received world-wide publicity for an outreach activity they are planning. I wanted to link to their website, but it has either crashed due to too much traffic or been suspended. Initially I saw this as video on the …
A couple of weeks ago I posted a brief reflection on a blog piece written by Tim Keller, lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. Keller characterised various emphases of different churches, and described his (and my) tradition as distinctively having: ‘a ‘prophetic’ emphasis on preaching, teaching, and doctrine. The danger there is …
Justin Taylor has a post about John Piper’s call to enter the pastorate and serve as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The post marks the thirtieth anniversary since the commencement of that calling. The book, ‘Desiring God’ was my introduction to Piper and also another marker post in my love for the …
Editor Paul Grimmond relates the challenges of thinking up the theme titles for each issue of The Briefing. I don’t think I’ve even conciously reflected on them. Do they ever get recycled? I have to confess I didn’t even realise that it wasn’t ‘The Goodness of God’ until I wrote this post. Anyway, the articles …
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