The Southern Baptist Churches are having some issues due to the rise of pastors of Calvinist convictions. ‘Memo: How to smoke out a Calvinistic pastor in your church’. The Founders Journal blog has been given some material that is being circulated amongst churches in the connection that is meant to help churches identify such Calvinist …
This is from Pyromaniacs. It is excerpted from a longer message. We can forgive them calling this a ‘pulpit highlight’. Phil Johnson doesn’t beat around the bush. I didn’t take offence at the comment about comfortable seats. more about "Pyromaniacs: Brothers, We Are Not Fig…", posted with vodpod For those of you who don’t know …
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 …
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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