Retreat Groups are a peer-facilitated, intentional, short-term process aimed at the renewal, refreshment and spiritual growth of the participants. Over a three-year cycle the participants enter into a covenant of confidentiality and support, hear each other’s life stories, discern where God is leading us in our own spiritual growth and engage in intentional exercises and …
Talk among the local pastors this morning turned to planting churches. The conversation covered various hair-raising stories, and involved church plants which have gone on and others which didn’t take root. Which got us onto remembering that churches are born and grow not according to human will but the sovereign purpose of God. This observation …
While known primarily for his background in counselling, Jay Adams is a great teacher of preaching. The Institute for Nouthetic Studies is posting articles by Adams on preaching each Friday. They will be refreshing for experienced preachers or instructive for novices. Preaching With Purpose was the initial text from which I learned to preach. This …
Ligonier Ministries have just hosted a ‘Google Hangout’ with Sinclair Ferguson. Start listening and you’ll hear the dulcet Aussie tones of Nathan Bingham, then a forty-five minute open conversation with Sinclair on pastoral ministry, some of the concerns facing the evangelical church, and an update on what ministry looks like for him since his retirement. …
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