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Tag: Preaching

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

An uncertain sound

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

Christianity, Culture, Preaching

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 … More

Coronavirus, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

Brothers, shall we weep?

As Christian ministers we are vulnerable to the twin temptations of activism and stoicism, of deploying our energies or cutting … More

Christianity, Evangelism, Grief, Local Church, Ministry, Mission, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching, priorities

Reverse engineering the logic of Scripture

I believe that the systematic expository preaching of Scripture is not the only means of teaching the gathered church, but … More

Christianity, Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching, Worship

Why God’s people need their elders to teach them

If we were charged with helping a new Christian to develop spiritual disciplines for their growth in the faith, what … More

Pastoral Ministry, Preaching

Why I am not theologically sound

We lay great emphasis on the soundness of preachers we listen to, and authors whom we read. For many of … More

Pastoral Ministry, Preaching, theology

Preaching hard texts in hard times

In the second week of March 1941, Martyn Lloyd-Jones delivered a series of lectures in the Assembly Hall of the … More

Christianity, Evangelism, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching
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