Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anaarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. (from William [...]
Archive for June, 2011
21 Jun
So you’re ready to hang up the ministry?
I know for a fact that some of the pastors who read this blog are going through very difficult seasons of ministry. For some those “seasons” have stretched-on for years. If that’s not you then be thankful and pray for those who are enduring hardship. If you are struggling then I want you to remember [...]
19 Jun
Seeker Churches are Alive and ____
….I would not use the adjective “well” but they certainly seem to be very much alive. I have heard some suggest today that the seeker movement is dead but I have not seen any such signs of numerical decline. In our small city of 26k the local seeker church is planting satellite campuses all over the area [...]
17 Jun
Praying for the next generation of pastors
I found the following excerpt from a longer prayer of Spurgeon’s called “The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved.” Note: the “College” he refers to was the in-house pastor’s training school which was also the focus of his well-known Lectures to My Students. “Bless the dear sons of this church, trained at our own side, who go [...]
14 Jun
Should we declare bankruptcy on matters of “science”?
I just noticed that the Biologos website has a ringing endorsement from Robert Schuller, you can’t make this stuff up. We are entering an epoch whereby Science and Faith will only serve to prove that with God ALL THINGS are possible! Bless your work, BioLogos! Keep being smart! Keep being Possibility Thinkers for the glory [...]
9 Jun
The seminaries are too full
The modern university system is bloated, fat, and generally meaningless from the standpoint of both value and return. Nevertheless, everybody figures out a way to go these days. Louis Menand, in The New Yorker, pretty much says the same. So if enrollment numbers are indicative of success then the American university system should be a [...]
9 Jun
A Festschrift in Honor of John MacArthur
The Master’s Seminary Journal Volume 22, No 1 is a great read for all you expository preachers out there. My favorite articles were Expository Preaching: The Logical Response to a Robust Bibliology by Dr. Rick Holland and Striking Similarities Between Two Extraordinary Expositors by Dr. Steve Lawson. Lawson’s article compares the pulpit ministries of D.M. Lloyd-Jones [...]
7 Jun
It’s called “pastor-teacher” for a reason
In his new memoir Outsider Looking In, Gary Wills, leftist intellectual and former conservative journalist, made an interesting observation about politicians who try to become academics after they leave office. “Politicians live for contact with people. They lose the gift for contemplation, or research, or simple reading. Being alone with a book is a way [...]
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