Zack Eswine expands on the life metaphor that if you’re going to give shade you have to develop deep roots. This is a principle he sees in the life of our Saviour, Jesus. What was he doing in the thirty years before his public ministry began? Growing roots. Developing a sense of place. Which is …
One of the latest Preaching Matters videos features Gavin Perkins who provides his take on preaching in the Sydney evangelical tradition. Apart from the quote which is the title of this post there’s other helpful material. “So much of what makes good preaching is just learning how to read well and noticing what is actually …
Carl Trueman commences a series of posts about being a church leader who has subscribed to a confession. Take an elder in a confessional church. He has taken public vows before the church to uphold a particular set of theological tenets, for example, the sovereignty of God as articulated in the Westminster Confession of Faith …
Prayer in unhealthy churches is reactive rather than proactive. A problem develops, and then the church members pray. A marriage struggles, and then they pray. A young person wanders, and then the church prays. Prayer in an unhealthy congregation is often a response of desperation rather than a marker of the DNA of the church. …
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