Focussing on the covenant keeping obedience of Jesus in the wilderness as recorded in Luke 4, tonight we sang Philip Lawson Johnston’s ‘Jesus Is The Name We Honour’ at mgpc. I think the lyrics do a wonderful job of calling to mind various Scriptural allusions and themes about the glorification of Jesus. He did not …
“Be of good courage and cast these dreadful thoughts out of your mind. Whenever the devil pesters you with these thoughts, at once seek out the company of men, drink more, joke and jest, or engage in some other form of merriment. . . . When the devil throws our sins up to us and …
The links I put here week by week are meant to have particular interest to pastors. Not exclusively, but generally. This week begins with a preaching sort of theme. At the Gospel Coalition, David Murray outlines the reasons behind his answer to the question: “Can I be called to the ministry, if I dread sermon …
Why do people who say they love the Bible; assert it teaches what they are to believe and do; claim that God’s Holy Spirit will work through the hearing of it when it is read; and maintain that it should be read as part of corporate worship: read so little of it in blocks; neglect …
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