The ministry of the Word

As the early church began to grow exponentially, it quickly became essential to delineate roles and responsibilities in the church.  So in Acts 6, deacons were selected to assist the elders so that the elders could carry out their primary responsibilities of “prayer and the ministry of the Word” (v. 4). Now it might seem […]

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A sermon do-over

Every preacher has them:  sermons that they realized after-the-fact that they did the worst thing that can be done in a sermon.  They missed the point of the passage. I’ve had at least my fair share of them.  But one stands towering over all the others in my mind.  I remember studying that week, wondering […]

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New sermon series

Having just finished the book of Ephesians last Sunday, I am being asked pretty regularly these days, “what are you preaching next?” I have several topical series in mind that I’d like to do soon, along with a couple of book studies (Titus probably later this year followed by Hebrews and/or 1 John).  But next […]

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Grab bag

Items of interest with biblical implications from around the internet in the past week: Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the death of Martyn Lloyd-Jones.  Justin Taylor has compiled short biographical videos and a number of other resources of interest concerning the great preacher’s life. Paul Tripp talks about the grace of confession — “no […]

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Grab Bag

A few things I’ve spotted around the Internet recently: The end of the year means the inevitable “year in review” lists.  Here is a list of “Top 10 Theology and Church Stories” (with many supporting links) from Colin Hansen. Accordance recounts a brief (and recent) history of the study Bible.  [Accordance is my Bible study […]

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The preacher’s professor

Charles Spurgeon has long been called “the prince of preachers.” That is to say, he is recognized as being supreme among all other preachers.  The best of the best. In a similar way, Haddon Robinson might be called “the professor of preachers.”  Probably no single preacher has influenced and developed more preachers in our generation […]

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Some overlooked Piper quotes

Part of the problem of the technological age in which we live is that some things which should be forgotten and disappear into the vapor of air as soon as they are said, is that they are instead recorded, processed, transcribed, printed and disseminated in a variety of media forms, most notably, the Internet.  On […]

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Bring the Book!

This morning we read Nehemiah 8, which is the passage that was the basis for Steve Lawson’s sermon “Bring the Book!” at the Shepherds’ Conference a few years ago.  It is a really outstanding sermon.  You may download it here.  (It really is worth the hour or so it will take you to listen to […]

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