Pastoral Ministry

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• Questions for the CanRC

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 566
  The Committee on Ecumenical Relations and Church Union (CERCU) recently sent  a letter to the councils (i.e., the ministers, elders, and deacons of a given congregation) of the United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA). In it they invite the councils or consistories (i.e., the ministers and elders of a given ...
  13 hours ago

• True Meaning of Christmas?

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 423
  One of the ironies of the Christmas season is how often people chime in on ‘the real meaning of Christmas’ and then proceed, in my opinion, to get it wrong. For example, ‘Christmas isn’t all about shopping and getting, it’s about family and traditions….’ While I agree that quality family time is way ...
  16 hours ago

• Tim Keller’s Advice to Seminarians–Pastor a Country Church

  
  Between The Times — Authority: 529
  Though I have never been the “permanent” pastor of a local church, I have been a youth minister and done interim pastor work. Three of the churches I’ve served were rural congregations of less than 100 active members. I wouldn’t trade my experiences with those small-church saints for anything in the world. ...
  21 hours ago

• Meet Kevin DeYoung (1)

  
  C.J. Mahaney's view from the cheap seats & other stuff — Authority: 482
  I first met Kevin DeYoung in the pages of his book Why We’re Not Emergent (Moody, 2008). Somewhere around page 50 I became his fan. Since that time I’ve also had the privilege and joy of becoming his friend. Kevin is the senior pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan, and the author ...
  1 day ago

• John Cleese: Some great advice for ministers and other endangered species

  
  P e r ? C r u c e m ? a d ? L u c e m — Authority: 492
  Posted in John Cleese, Pastoral Ministry
  2 days ago

• My Sermons at Metrocrest

  
  The Cruciform Life Blog — Authority: 104
  I’ve just added a sidebar box with links to my recent sermons preached at Metrocrest Presbyterian Church.I’ve just started a series called “A Year With Jesus” which highlights the major events of the Christian Calendar.  I will be preaching 3 more sermons in this series beginning the Sunday after Christmas.  ...
  2 days ago

• Vital and Influential (Transforming) Christianity

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 423
  "It is a growing conviction in my mind, that vital and influential Christianity consists, much more than is ordinarily apprehended, in an intimate personal acquaintance and friendship with our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the great Revealer of God; He is the revealed Divinity.... To be a Christian, it is not enough that ...
  3 days ago

• The Most Wonderful Time

  
  The Cruciform Life Blog — Authority: 104
  Don’t you just hate to wait?  If you do, then you’re American through and through.  We Americans seem to have little patience for waiting.Can you remember life without microwave ovens? We have acquired a distaste for delay.Why waste all that time at the video store when you can get your movies “On Demand”?At ...
  3 days ago

• What Is "Success" in Pastoral Ministry?

  
  Pure Church — Authority: 534
  Digging around in the DG archives, I listened to this stellar talk today from Kent Hughes, " Pastoral Success and the Cross of Christ ." This is a talk Hughes gave at the 1989 Desiring God Pastors Conference, follow his 1988 publication of Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome . Its a gripping ...
  4 days ago

• "Jesus Is Here"

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 423
  From Justin Taylor... A video chapter from the Jesus Storybook Bible , read by David Suchet.
  4 days ago

• Brenden is Reading Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 566
  At True Blue. He’s reading Dennis Johnson’s chapter, “Simul iustus et Peccator: The Role of Justification in Pastoral Counseling.” You can order your copy from the Bookstore at WSC for $17.36 (+$5.00 shipping). Remember, it helps the HB when you go to the bookstore through the HB.Posted in counseling, ...
  4 days ago

• On Holy Ground with Chris Castaldo

  
  Pure Church — Authority: 534
  In Gods gracious economy, the Lord sometimes gifts the body of Christ with people who can be expert tour guides to other faiths or other viewpoints. These men and women, sometimes by virtue of their studies, sometimes as a consequence of personal experience, are uniquely gifted to educate others regarding ...
  4 days ago

• "Hast Thou Heard Him, Seen Him, Known Him?"

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 423
  (The antidote to idolatry...) Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him? Is not thine a captured heart? Chief among ten thousand own Him; Joyful choose the better part. Idols oft they win thee, charm thee Lovely things of time and sense; Gilded thus does sin disarm thee, Honeyed lest thou turn thee hence. What has ...
  5 days ago

• Introverts in the Church [book review]

  
  Miscellanies. — Authority: 492
  Imagine you are called to ministry, but you are introverted. What do you do? Do you choose academic ministry and a life of reading, writing, and libraries? Perhaps, but what if you discover that the academic road is a mismatch? What then? Wing it as an introverted pastor in a local church? Or do you simply resign and ...
  5 days ago

• The Algorithm of the Gospel

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 423
  “He that believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved, be his sins never so many. But he that does not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ must be damned, be his sins never so few.” - Thomas Brooks If that sounds right to you, then I think youve understood the true gospel and the only way of ...
  5 days ago

• "The Manhattan Declaration"

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 423
  The Manhattan Declaration A Call of Christian Conscience from their introductory page: Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.We ...
  1 week ago

• The Solution to a Great Lot of Problems

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 566
  Antinomianism and legalism will always be with us. They have plagued the church since the apostolic age (read Galatians and 1 Corinthians). In the seventeenth century, however, appeared a marvelous remedy for both: The Marrow of Modern Divinity. The adjective “modern” is misleading in our ears today as there’s ...
  1 week ago

• The Foolish Sins of Leadership

  
  Pure Church — Authority: 534
  Im reminded this morning that the foolish sins of leaders have devastating effects on the lives of Gods people. In 1 Chronicles 21, King David instructs Joab and the commanders of the army to take a census of Israel. For that decision, incited by Satan (v. 1) under the sovereign control and anger of God (2 Sam. 24:1), ...
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• "Fill Your Affections with the Cross of Christ"

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 423
  “When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.” - John Owen, quoted by C. J. Mahaney in ...
  1 week ago

• Some Things I Think Evangelicals Can Learn from Catholicism

  
  By Every Word... — Authority: 423
  Whats printed below is the gist of the lesson I taught today, as part of the series, "Always Being Reformed by the Word of God" “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness…” 2 Tim.3:16 Christians and churches should always want to please the ...
  1 week ago

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