Anything by Paul Tripp is usually helpful and good. Dangerous Calling deals with pastoral ministry. The trailer is powerful. I hope (and expect) the book lives up to what’s promised. Dangerous Calling from Paul Tripp Ministries on Vimeo. Here’s an excerpt. Dangerous Calling Excerpt from Paul Tripp Ministries on Vimeo.
What does Center Church (Timothy Keller, Zondervan Publishers, 2012) promise? In Center Church, Timothy Keller seeks to provide “a particular theological vision for ministry that we believe will enable many churches to reach people in our day and time, particularly where late-modern Western globalisation is influencing the culture”. This vision also embraces “using the gospel …
So many people pray for me, my family and the ministry I have with mgpc. Here’s an article from the Ligonier Ministries site about prayer for pastors by Nicholas Batzig. It turned up in my rss feed, but doesn’t seem to be on the site proper. But I think it’s helpful. With so much opposition …
From The Crucifixion Of Ministry by Andrew Purves: Only the ministry of Jesus is redemptive. No amount of religiously motivated helpfulness or niceness can fill in for the redemptive ministry of Jesus Christ. The danger for us and especially or our parishioners comes when we insist on displacing the ministry of Jesus with our own …
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