The Good News of the Father’s Conditional Love for the Son

By Jonathan Leeman | 08.28.2014

At the very center of the universe, and the greatest love in the universe, is the divine Father’s conditional love for the divine Son. That should give us hope.

Biblical Theology: Ballast for Preaching (Part 1 of 3)

By D. Helm, J. Miles | 08.27.2014

Our goal in this series of three posts is to introduce tools of biblical theology so that you might put some bulk in your preaching.

Biblical Theology: Ballast for Preaching (Part 2 of 3)

By D. Helm, J. Miles | 08.27.2014

Good preaching will require the facility to rightly recognize both typology and analogy.

Biblical Theology: Ballast for Preaching (Part 3 of 3)

By David Helm | 08.27.2014

The Charles Simeon Trust has created an interactive online course called Preaching and Biblical Theology.

Nobody Gets the Church They Want

By Bobby Jamieson | 08.27.2014

Whatever might be on your want-list, I can guarantee this: not everything on your list is on God’s.

Leading the Church through Grief of Sin

By Joey Cochran | 08.27.2014

It is appropriate for us to include opportunities to grieve, confess and repent sin in our church’s corporate gathering.

How One South African Pastor Prayed Yesterday

By Tim Cantrell | 08.27.2014

Lord, teach us what you would have us to learn from Mandela’s death.

Non-Congregationalists, Stop Firing Your Church Members!

By Jonathan Leeman | 08.27.2014

Don’t tell me that I formally wear Jesus’ name before the nations, but that I’m powerless to protect his name against false doctrine and false teachers.

Eldering, Economics, and Calling to Ministry

By Bobby Jamieson | 08.27.2014

If you say you’re called to ministry, I don’t immediately know what you mean, or if what you mean is biblical.

Reframing “Calling”: Words to Churches and Aspiring Pastors

By Bobby Jamieson | 08.27.2014

Raising up pastors is the church’s work—the whole church.

High Schoolers: What You Really Want In a College

By Jonathan Leeman | 08.27.2014

Christian, if there is no healthy church nearby, there’s another college for you—somewhere.

Not Strange Enough: “Church Rescue” and the National Geographic Effect

By Bobby Jamieson | 08.26.2014

The TV show Church Rescue is a friendly, innocuous, late-period artifact of the shrinking Bible Belt.

The Word Works, Even When It Doesn’t

By Matt McCullough | 08.26.2014

The Word is profitable, Paul insists, even when the results have been discouraging. So there’s nothing to do but to keep on preaching that Word, in season and out of season.

The Double Presumption of Calling to Ministry

By Bobby Jamieson | 08.26.2014

What does it mean to say that you’re “called” to pastoral ministry?

Ten Steps to a More Fruitful Sabbatical

By Brian Croft | 08.26.2014

If you are planning for an upcoming sabbatical, I hope this begins a helpful conversation about what would be the best ways for you to benefit from this gift.

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