The old saying used to go that people would have ‘roast minister’ after church on Sunday. The minister can save them the trouble though, if he is stupid enough to spend four hours outside on the first sunny day for five months and roast himself (on Monday). Anyway, enough about stupid pastors. Last week or …
There’s a one year old Baptist Church in the US with a membership of fifteen that has received world-wide publicity for an outreach activity they are planning. I wanted to link to their website, but it has either crashed due to too much traffic or been suspended. Initially I saw this as video on the …
A couple of weeks ago I posted a brief reflection on a blog piece written by Tim Keller, lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. Keller characterised various emphases of different churches, and described his (and my) tradition as distinctively having: ‘a ‘prophetic’ emphasis on preaching, teaching, and doctrine. The danger there is …
Justin Taylor has a post about John Piper’s call to enter the pastorate and serve as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The post marks the thirtieth anniversary since the commencement of that calling. The book, ‘Desiring God’ was my introduction to Piper and also another marker post in my love for the …
