Here’s a ten minute video excerpt from a five hour conference video presented by Paul Tripp and based on material in his book Forever: Why You Can’t Live Without It. I found the book engaging and helpful when I read it last year. This material will probably turn up at mgpc sometime. Here’s a taste. …
I studied (and failed) preaching at the then Queensland Presbyterian Theological Hall in the early 1990s. Back then the class motto was ‘iron sharpens iron’, or something like that. If you mention that phrase around the guys who studied there in that period you’ll probably find a few automatically hit the floor whimpering in the …
I’ve never met Stephen McDonald, though I think he and his family stayed in my house way back in 2004, and I have a vague memory of some of the mgpc folk being impressed about a young fellow who could play the organ (along with a sermon or two which his father preached). Stephen has …
Tim Chester points out that living functionally as if we are our own Saviour builds up resistance to the truth of the Gospel, even if we’re part of the church. There are two ways we get life wrong. 1. We want to be our own Lord instead of Jesus In other words, I replace Jesus …
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