More from Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). Craig Barnes seeks to describe what poetic leadership looks like in a culture of anxious worry seeking immediate solutions for every problem. So it is not surprising that the pastors’ continued devotion to great and holy ideals would put them out of step with …

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Apparently Bob Kauflin will be visiting Australia in the second half of 2011. The Sovereign Grace online store has lots of the music of Kauflin and others, along with printed resources in including Bob’s book about worship and writing from C. J. Mahaney and Josh Harris. An overall discount of 30% applies. Music is available …

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For you fans of Tim Keller’s preaching, (you know who you are), from Andy Naselli’s blog: Dennis E. Johnson summarizes three central emphases of Tim Keller‘s homiletic approach to illustrate how “the gospel changes everything” in “an approach to evangelistic, edificatory redemptive-historical preaching” (Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures [Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian …

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From the Buzzard Blog, a good word for Black Dog Mondays. From as far back as I can remember I’ve been a perfectionist. Most pastors are perfectionists. I’m starting to think that a main reason God called me to be a pastor is to crush my perfectionism and set me increasingly free through the gospel. …

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