Thom Rainer shares how church members can help their pastors. I heartily agree – – including the one below about sharing unnecessary or last minute announcements right before the pastor preaches! I know. Pastors aren’t perfect. But they do have…
A good place for motivation to begin
As a pastor, I come back to the question of motivation often. Why should someone give up their Sunday morning and come to church? Why should someone be baptized? After all, if we did not know about baptism, is not…
Florin Trifan shares how he came to Christ in communist Romania
One of my sabbatical highlights was watching the below video on my computer while in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Trevin Wax: In Holy Subversion, I briefly recount the conversion story of my father-in-law, Florin Trifan. Bro. Trifan was a Communist party member…
Why I repeatedly say, “Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation” to the Bricks
The people in our flock know that I repeatedly stress the storyline of the Bible in preaching to our church. This is a summary of “Biblical Theology.” Zach Nielson, with the help of Graeme Goldsworthy explains why this is so…
Giving a reasoned defense of the faith
Our church was blessed this summer to hear Mike Wittmer preach. Mike recently posted some of his interaction with a skeptic. In so doing, he models “presuppositional apologetics.” If that wording throws you off a bit – – just read…
Rudyard Kipling’s, “Recessional,” “Lest we forget”
God of our fathers, known of old– Lord of our far-flung battle line– Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine– Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget–lest we forget! The tumult and…
Learn from this
John Piper – Is it OK for mothers to work full-time outside the home?
Can anything be less than nothing?
Fair time is not so awful far away (See Remembering the 1972 County Fair in Keosauqua, IA). Surely you know some little girl you can encourage to read Charlotte’s Web. What a warm way to teach Proverbs 18:24. Wilbur feels…
Wendell Berry: Teach the young by trembling this 4th of July weekend
For the second year in a row, my plan is to be out of the country this 4th of July. So, no getting together with family. Still, I thought of this Wendell Berry poem in advance. If you are getting…