Well, it’s time for my annual post on ET. As patterns hold, my posts are decreasing in frequency (longer than 12 months between posts) and in quality. Today I’d like to ask a simple but perplexing question. How do you know when it’s time to leave a church as a teaching pastor? Before anyone from [...]
Archive for April, 2010
16 Apr
Together for the Gospel 2010
Certainly there are better “Bible communicators” in the world but i know of no better “Bible expositor” than John MacArthur. I just listened to his sermon on Mark 4 from T4G and was ministered to in such a powerful way. I think my congregation will be hearing that sermon video Sunday PM. Thank you Pastor [...]
14 Apr
Unusual advice on preaching (from Luther)
Johann Schlaginhaufen, a boarder in the home of Martin Luther and one of the recorders of “Table Talks,” received the following advice on preaching from Luther in 1531. I’m certain I’ve never read this piece of advice on preaching before: One who diligently reads the Book of Kings [i.e., 1 & 2 Kings] will become [...]
12 Apr
Advice on writing (preaching?)
Russian playwrite, Anton Chekhov said, “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on a broken glass.”
7 Apr
Hughes Old on the preaching of John MacArthur
The latest volume in Hughes Oliphant Old’s series The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures has been released as volume 7: Our Own Time. Probably of interest to our readers, Phil Johnson has published the section on “The Preaching of John MacArthur” (read the entire passage here). I have greatly enjoyed Old’s magisterial history of [...]
2 Apr
Question of the week?
When do believers receive from God their new “glorified” bodies? Please provide us with a summary answer and use Scripture to support your assertions.
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