P had a rough day in ministry yesterday. Another of many. Remember this: John Newton in a letter to Rev. Thomas Jones (October 20, 1767): “As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.” The pastor’s …
All preaching special. Everyone had something to say about preaching last week. Jared Wilson interacting with Ed Stetzer Your Next Sermon May Be Your Last. If you get hit by a bus on Monday, was the last thing you preached moralistic therapeutic deism? Albert Mohler underlines the importance of preaching by asking ‘How Will They …
Mark Driscoll reflects on ‘Fourteen Long, Good, Hard, Glorious, Painful, Amazing, Frightful Years’ as planting pastor of Mars Hill. One observation: “I needed more training and should have waited a few more years. Had I to do it over again, I would not have given up looking for a godly older pastor to help sand …
Funerals from Hell – Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? is a helpful and challenging article written by Craig Parton and published on the Modern Reformation site. (Parton has experienced issues of death and funerals himself. This does not add or subtract from the truth of what he says, but he is empathetic to the …
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