The Desiring God blog has featured Twelve Appeals To Prosperity Preachers from John Piper. The content has been drawn from Piper’s book ‘Let The Nations Be Glad’. As Piper points out This is the missing note in prosperity preaching. The New Testament aims at the glory of Christ, not the glory of his gifts. To …
Every pastor/preacher can empathise with this quote from Francis Chan: Once you pastor for a while, it dawns on you that nailing a sermon doesn’t mean lives will change. Or you’ll meet a person who’s surrendered everything to Christ, and you’ll realize that your sermon wasn’t even good and nothing you did caused him to …
Jared Wilson writes about the adoption of what he terms ‘baptismal dual practice’. Wilson pastors an independant congregation which has members who represent both what I’ll call the ‘covenant family’ and ‘professing believer’ positions on baptism. As part of a confessing body of churches this issue is not one that we would deal with constitutionally …
Pastors and church leaders, Daryl Dash thinks this advice about getting to know other local pastors is good advice. I agree. Church members, ask your pastor if he meets with other local pastors. If he doesn’t, ask why. There are sound reasons not to meet with other pastors, but he should want to, if it …
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