What words would you expect from someone who endured the unimaginable horrors of World War II—someone imprisoned for helping Jews escape death, who suffered the loss of family, watched her sister die, and lived through the nightmare of a Nazi concentration camp? Corrie Ten Boom, who experienced exactly that, once said:“You may never know thatContinue reading “When Jesus Is All You Have: Finding Hope in Psalm 23”
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Does God really love everyone?
I was driving today and in front of me was a car with a bumper sticker that read “Smile – God loves you”. It’s a sentiment that everyone likes the idea of – a loving God in the sky who bestows love on people. If you’ve been around church for any length of time you’llContinue reading “Does God really love everyone?”
Rethinking the Rapture: A Biblical Perspective
Some of the most heated theological debates I’ve observed over the years have been about eschatology – the theology of the end times. Some people take their eschatology so seriously. They doubt the salvation of others who disagree with them. Shocking, I know, but I’ve seen it. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve beenContinue reading “Rethinking the Rapture: A Biblical Perspective”
Effective Sermon Application: Balancing Head, Heart, and Hands
If you’ve been tagging along with the blog for the past week you will have deduced from my posts that I’ve been doing some thinking lately on preaching. Don’t worry, this is the last post on preaching for a little while at least. One of the aspects of preaching that I’ve been contemplating a lotContinue reading “Effective Sermon Application: Balancing Head, Heart, and Hands”
Why Preaching Requires a Human Touch
What is preaching? A. W. Tozer said “To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.” John Owen said “The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word” D. L.Continue reading “Why Preaching Requires a Human Touch”
Learning to Shepherd: Local vs. Famous Pastors
What is the greatest threat to the church in our generation? I wonder how you would answer that question. Maybe you would say it’s liberalism, a moving away from the biblical teaching on certain points. Perhaps you’d be more specific and say that it’s the lack of reverence and devotion of people today and aContinue reading “Learning to Shepherd: Local vs. Famous Pastors”
Ministry Friendships Beyond Pastors
One of the topics that is often spoken about in conferences for pastors and others in ministry is friendship. Plenty of books and blog posts have also been written on the importance of having friends, who are also in ministry, who can encourage, challenge and help you. I think it’s a completely necessary to haveContinue reading “Ministry Friendships Beyond Pastors”
The Christian Diet
There comes a time in most peoples’ lives when they consider the kind of food that they take into their body. We’re not designed to run as peak performance on fast food and little fruit and vegetables. There seems to be a renewed push towards considering what you consume with more adverts, health related newsContinue reading “The Christian Diet”
Sermon Series
Today I thought I would give you a little sneak-peak into one aspect of my work as a Pastor. I wanted to share with you a little about the sermon series documents that I write for a sermon series. I decided to do this today because I’ve just finished writing one on Hebrews, one onContinue reading “Sermon Series”
What’s required for revival?
One of the things you’ll often hear Christians pray for is revival. This is maybe more in the forefront of people’s minds recently with the so called ‘Asbury Revival’. As Christians we long for a work of the Lord to awaken spiritually dead souls, to take people from darkness and sin to light and freedomContinue reading “What’s required for revival?”
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