At the Reformation 21 blog Carl Trueman provides the following ‘Teaser On Preaching’, with the challenge to guess its author. “Preachers must not be boring. To a large extent the pastor and boredom are synonymous concepts. Listeners often think that they have heard already what is being said in the pulpit. They have long since …
Youth ministry was not a significant component of my training. As I commented on the blog where I saw this, basically, student ministers on field appointment were usually assigned to the youth group. This was where they discovered that they were not ‘called’ to minister to youth. The ministers who assigned them to youth group …
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 …
For pastors who are spending Monday wallowing in thinly disguised self-pity regretting the short-comings of their preaching yesterday, a timely and realistic word of encouragement from David Murray, ‘God blesses “beta” sermons’.
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