Steve Cree is lead pastor at Brisbane’s Creek Road Presbyterian Church. Before that he planted Southern Cross Presbyterian in Lismore, New South Wales. At the Creek Road blog he has posted what he calls an early draft of his philosophy of ministry. It follows the ‘Ministry Papers’ format and centrally provides details of books which …
In the latest issue of online theological journal Themelios, Sinclair Ferguson ponders over four decades of pulpit ministry and provides a reflective Ten Commandments For Preachers. Christians would do well to encourage these qualities in their preachers, and, of course, in themselves. The outline: 1. Know your Bible better. 2. Be a man of prayer. …
Timmy Brister provides ten contrasts between grace filled Christian communities and moral driven church groupings. Here are a few examples, read the rest of his post for the others. A grace saturated community will . . . * have a warm disposition to the very worst of sinners (while moral community often be cold and …
I have more and more empathy with the basic position expressed in these thoughts from Jared Wilson, particularly in the area of busyness expressed in points 2, 4, 6 and 8. Sometimes it’s possible to program activity and it simply becomes something more to be done than genuinely meeting a need. I’m a big fan …
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