Harry Reeder demonstrates that, with various situations demanding their time and efforts, the leaders of the Christian church in the book of Acts sought to preserve the priority of ‘prayer and the Word’, appointing others to deal with the other works which the church had to perform. Helpfully, Reeder shows that this priority of ‘prayer …

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Being a long way from anywhere means that just slipping off to a ministry conference is a bit of an exercise. Fortunately a generation of blog savvy posters means that reasonable notes are available. And sometimes audio is even posted a bit later for free. New student Stephen McDonald has posted notes on the sessions …

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I try to ration my Paul Tripp posts, but they’re all so helpful. In this post from the Gospel Coalition, he addresses the danger of being so mired in ministry activity that pastors stop short of experiencing the constructive and restoring power of the Gospel when we have experienced the destructive power of conflict, attacks …

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