I’ve been trying to keep links to material I found useful for growth in pastoral life together and publish them once a week. Calling them all ‘Pastoral Helps’ is kind of bland, but that’s what they are and it means I don’t have to think of a new title each week. Ray Ortlund has a …
Previous posts here and here. I’m not going to recite all the issues again, read the previous posts for background. These are a collection of statements that sort of summarise the issues that people have with the document. On Reformation 21 Ligon Duncan posts a statement observing that members of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals …
Here are three essays from last week that I found beneficial as a pastor and a person. Let’s start with a post from Jon Acuff on the Stuff Christians Like site entitled “Pretending We Have Boxes”. It’s part reflection on the Tiger Wood’s downfall and part personal application. Acuff remembers a time in his own …
As he reflects on thirty years of pastoring Scotty Smith characterises his journey in this manner: ‘Armed with answers to questions few were asking, I was more preoccupied with being right than being caring. Though a commitment to defending the truth and loving well are not mutually exclusive, it seems that spotting heresies required so …
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