From the keyboard of Robert Benn, moderator of the 2007 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and received through the PresENews email network: Dear friends, On October 17th, this year, in Rome, Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint, is to be “canonized”. Of course we are interested in this, because some of our tax …
From Ed Stetzer’s blog: Today’s guest blogger is Chuck Warnock. Chuck pastors Chatham Baptist Church in Chatham, Virginia, a small congregation that averages about 80 in worship. Chuck is a contributing editor and columnist for Outreach magazine, and blogs at Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor. Leading Change in the Small Church “How can I get …
I would maintain that churches in my denomination don’t transition from one pastoral leader to another with consistent excellence and purpose. The overwhelming majority of our congregations do not have the resources to support two men in a transition, so congregations endure a time without a minister/teaching elder/pastor, which is called a vacancy. Even in …
From the Gospel Coalition website. Don Carson preached on five Psalms, 1, 2, 40, 48, and 110 at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia in August 2010: Psalm 1 Psalm 2 Psalm 40 Psalm 48 Psalm 110 These Carson sermons come highly commended by one who heard them delivered live. (Not me, I’m afraid.) The Ridley …
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