The church in community

After writing yesterday’s book review, I remembered a seminar entitled “The Pastor and His Community: How the Gospel Informs Our Mission beyond the Church” that Mark Dever did at a pastor’s conference earlier this year. Both the audio and his notes are available. While he may not have been as definitive about how these principles […]

Book Review: Unfashionable

Title: Unfashionable: Making a difference in the world by being different Author: Tullian Tchividjian Publisher: Multnomah Books, 2009; 204 pp. $17.99 Recommendation (4-star scale): This morning I was in a meeting at the church when an unknown man came to my office door, introduced himself and said that he had a financial need — could […]

Today’s Quote – Graduation (Hendricks)

Howard Hendricks (answering the question, “Do you have any words of wisdom for our graduates?”): Don’t believe your press reports. It bothers me that many students go out and are successful, which is the beginning of their failure. They believe that it’s them, when it’s not. This is why I would say to someone, ‘Use […]

Today’s Quote – Ministry (Sanders)

J. Oswald Sanders, Enjoying Intimacy with God: All spiritual ministry flows from the reality of our knowledge of God and the vitality of our fellowship with Him and His Son.

Today’s Quote (10/3/08)

Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students: “It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed; we are to spend and to be spent, not to lay ourselves up in lavender, […]

Be steadfast…abounding in God’s work

The other day I found myself having a little whine to my wife — “I’m weary…” was the general tone of the conversation. Ever had thoughts like that? Sure you have. It is easy to forget two complementary truths from Scripture: that as believers, are lives are given to Christ to be used (up) by […]

John Calvin’s Expository Genius

I recently finished reading Steve Lawson’s first book in his new series, “A Long Line of Godly Men:” The Expository Genius of John Calvin. It is more than a biography; it is an examination of his sermon style that has as its aim “to raise the bar for a new generation of expositors.” Several things […]