From a brief interview with Mark Dever about books and his reading habits, posted on The Gospel Coalition Reviews website. Q. Any advice on how to read for comprehension? A. This is the order I read nonfiction books: 1) table of contents; 2) prefatory material; 3) intro and conclusion; 4) chapter titles to figure out …
Every pastor/preacher can empathise with this quote from Francis Chan: Once you pastor for a while, it dawns on you that nailing a sermon doesn’t mean lives will change. Or you’ll meet a person who’s surrendered everything to Christ, and you’ll realize that your sermon wasn’t even good and nothing you did caused him to …
Among the articles in the May edition of Towers, the journal of Southern Baptist Seminary is a Q&A with Bryan Chapell, president of Covenant Seminary and author of both Christ Centered Preaching and Christ Centered Worship. The interview seeks to introduce the themes of Chapell’s two books to the magazine’s readers. On Christ centered preaching: …
Rodney Stark is a sociologist, historian of religion and author who was interviewed by Timothy Dalrymple for Patheos’ Evangelical Portal about his latest book, God’s Battalions: the Case for the Crusades. It’s a good and provactive read. Toward the end of the piece one quote caught my eye: Too many evangelical intellectuals want to be …
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