Congratulations to the team at Australian Presbyterian magazine for getting a shout-out on the Reformation21 blog. AP is co-hosted at the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals website, and the February 2011 issue is available there as a pdf for immediate viewing. Robert Brady writes: Did you know that The Magazine of the Presbyterian Church of Australia …
From Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). As a minor poet, the pastor doesn’t simply tell people to be satisfied with their limited lives but instead helps them to find the joy and sacred purposes to these limits. Some of the things that are missing from the garden are good and certainly …
Sandy Grant writes a helpful essay that deals with group emails which make alarming (or sometimes charming) claims of various sorts and request that they be “passed on.” Because I am a pastor and maintain a church email group list with large numbers on it, I receive lots of ‘pass it on’ emails. Dozens and …
A word of encouragement for pastors, and by extension all Christians, from Justin Buzzard reminding us of the famous interaction between John Wesley and Peter Bohler: Most of us live life feeling our way towards an action, rather than acting our way towards a feeling. We have it backwards. Instead, we ought to act our …
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