Some folk have the misguided notion that getting degrees is what qualifies you for pastoral ministry and leadership in the church. Educational attainments are tools, not qualifications. And they are no substitute for a pastor’s heart. From the Crossway blog: Thinking is not about: Going to school Getting degrees Having prestige The superiority of intellectuals …
From R.C. Sproul’s lecture ‘The Tyranny Of The Weaker Brother’. If a person has a scruple I do not share and it is a scruple unto the Lord, then I have to bend over backwards to be caring and not flaunt my liberty in their face. I should do the act that is indifferent but …
From R.C. Sproul Jr’s lecture ‘Blessed Are You If You Do Them’. [From the thirteenth chapter of John’s gospel:] “You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have …
God gives us Gospel freedom when He saves us. We’re saved because of Jesus. Sadly our own natures will always want to work to earn what can only be received as a gift. If there is a place for ‘works’ in the Christian life it is the effort to stop trying to live as if …
