Three posts from Ligon Duncan on the The First Presbyterian Church of Jackson website/blog. Reproduced from 2002, the content is sound and timely. Here are Duncan’s six head-points: (1) we need elders who want the work, not just the status of an elder; (2) we need elders who are godly men – because character, godliness, …
Ted Haggard had a spectacular fall from his position as a pastor and an evangelical leader for living a lie. Now he is seeking to plant another church. There are those who would contend that someone who has behaved so deceitfully and unfaithfully is not qualified to lead a church, though they can be forgiven …
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 …
The Acts 29 Network is about churches planting churches. They’re not afraid to make a provocative and challenging statements. Last week Scott Thomas (Acts 29 president and director) wrote Send Your Best Men Out On Mission: It won’t hurt the church if people are called away to go and make disciples elsewhere. It will hurt …
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