David Murray ponders whether 20 questions originally framed for prospective entreprenuers would also apply to prospective pastors, and which if any would need to be ammended ‘Reality Check For Would Be Pastors’: 1. I am willing to lose everything. 2. I embrace failure. 3. I am always willing to do tedious work. 4. I can …

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Thabiti Anyabwile has featured a five post series on ‘Filtered Listening’ at his Pure Church blog. The posts seek to encourage those who listen to sermons to think about how they hear, and what may be obstructing their understanding and Gospel response to the preaching of God’s Word. Anyabwile explains his purpose: In this series …

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And the gift itself makes us able to respond to the gift! From Jared Wilson: But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. — Hebrews 10:12 Why’d he sit down? Because the work of salvation was done. “It is finished.” How …

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