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5 things that I can do about racism

Sometimes a problem seems so entrenched and so impossible to scale that giving up is the easiest option. That is…

Christianity, George Floyd, Racism

Filtering for Repentance

One of the many vulnerabilities of the contemporary evangelical church is a stubborn mistaking of quantity for quality. This can…

Christianity, Covid-19, repentance

Preaching under the smile and the smiting rod

As I write these words, our home has descended into the silence of sleep on a Saturday night, and I…

Covid19, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

Some implications of an empty pulpit

Whether your cup is half empty or half full in the current global crisis, whether you credit or descry online…

Christianity, Covid19, Lament, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

A Certain Sound through Preaching

How are we to answer the exigencies and anxieties of the hour? What tone of voice and approach should we…

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

A Certain Sound through Theology

Earlier this week I posted about the danger of abdicating our responsibility to speak clearly to our world about God.…

An uncertain sound

There is a famous anecdote about a church producing some signage for the gable wall of their building, with the…

Christianity, Culture, Preaching

Learning the deeper lessons

These are undoubtedly the strangest of days. We are in a state of upheaval and disruption, and we have no…

Christian living, Christianity, Coronavirus, Covid19, priorities

Before Philippi

In approaching the narrative sections of Scripture, there is always the danger of foreclosure, of assuming the conclusion, and missing…

Coronavirus, Covid19, Ministry, Mission

The loneliness of the long distance Pastor

At the moment it seems like everything is interim. The decisions that we were agonising over a fortnight ago about…

Coronavirus, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

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