Posted in Audio Sermons, CJ Mahaney, Pastoral Ministry, T4G on April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you are discouraged in the ministry listen to CJ’s sermon “Sustaining a Pastor’s Soul” at T4G 2008. This sermon needs to be heard, especially for those contemplating quitting the ministry or leaving their current ministry. Excellent message and needed medicine!
Posted in Books, Historical Theology on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Michael Haykin gives helpful advice on “Where to Start in Reading Patristics” here.
Take a look at his other blog entry “What To Read of the Fathers” here.
Posted in Audio Sermons, T4G on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
You can access T4G 2008 audio here.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Check out the new ESV Study Bible website.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
I spent all morning visiting people in the hospital. One visit was for a routine out-patient surgery. The other was to spend time with a lady from our church as she watches her husband physically die. She is blessed in that she is surrounded with so many family members who love and support each other. [...]
Posted in James Montgomery Boice, Worship on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
“To worship God we must know who God is, but we cannot know who God is unless God first chooses to reveal Himself to us. God has done this in the Bible, which is why the Bible and the teaching of the Bible need to be central in our worship.” James Montgomery Boice in [...]
Posted in Audio Sermons, Lloyd-Jones on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
You can now access audio sermons of Martyn Lloyd-Jones here; you can sign up for podcast.
Posted in Church History, Historical Theology, Ligon Duncan, Pastoral Ministry on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Tony Reinke has posted his interview with Ligon Duncan on “Patristics for Busy Pastors.” You can access it here.
Posted in Baptist 1689, Charles Spurgeon, Confessions on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The elders of the Grace Baptist Church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania quoted in the foreword to The Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 Charles Spurgeon referring to the same Confession, “I have thought it right to reprint in cheap form this excellent list of doctrines, which were subscribed to by the Baptist Ministers in the year [...]
Posted in Books, Church History, Historical Theology on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life.” Peter of Blois (d. 1212) [...]
Posted in Church Discipline, Desiring God, John Piper on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
John Piper has a great article explaining The Leniency of Excommunication in contrast to the consequences of such actions in the OT. OT=death, NT=excommunication. Thanks be to God for His grace!
Posted in Desiring God, John Piper, Joy, Preaching on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
John Piper writes on preaching that which hasn’t joyfully mastered our heart. His last paragraph is a great reminder that our feelings must catch up to our sermons. We must pray hard and long for the Lord to break the hardness of our hearts so that He would be exulted in the pulpit from our [...]
Posted in Desiring God, John Piper, Writing on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
John Piper quotes C.S. Lewis giving some great advice on how to write and talk more clearly.
Posted in CJ Mahaney, Marriage on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Carolyn and C.J. Mahaney offer some great advice on the wife helping her husband through criticism-whether valid or invalid criticism. You can find this great wisdom here. Both husband and wife need to read this.
Reading this interview reminded me of Proverbs 27:5-6 “Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a [...]
Posted in Books, Church History, Philip Melanchthon on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I have just begun to read The European Reformations by Carter Lindberg for a class in Reformation Church History by Joel Beeke. Having acquainted myself with the layout and contents of the book I opened up to the Preface. The first two lines are a quote from Philip Melanchthon. He wrote, “Human life without knowledge [...]
