Three posts from Ligon Duncan on the The First Presbyterian Church of Jackson website/blog. Reproduced from 2002, the content is sound and timely. Here are Duncan’s six head-points: (1) we need elders who want the work, not just the status of an elder; (2) we need elders who are godly men – because character, godliness, …
From the Crossway Publishing blog: Greg Gilbert’s What is the Gospel? is available for free this month on Amazon’s Kindle and in the iBook store! But just as the gospel isn’t only for us individually, our desire is that this content would reach well beyond those of you who download it for free! I downloaded …
I’m having a ball reading T. David Gordon’s Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns. Many of Gordon’s asides are interesting in themselves. Part of the book is an extended evaluation of the use of the guitar to lead congregational singing in corporate worship. Having written that: There is no good musical reason to insist on accompanying …
From a footnote in Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: I am unaware of any contest for “worst expression ever added to the church’s vocabulary”. If there were such a contest, however, my nomination would be this: reaching people for Christ. This ambiguous expression (which never appears in Scripture) is redolent with positive connotative content, whle …
