The Reformed Pastor – Quoteables (Part 1)

I’ve been working through Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor, and it is excellent. This book is absolutely a must read for any one in pastoral or anyone pursuing pastoral ministry.
Many of today’s contemporary and popular books on pastoral ministry jump right into techniques and gimmicks that resemble that of a CEO than a minister of [...]

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Expositors’ Conference 2009

Christ Fellowship Baptist Church has just posted the audio and video files from the 2009 Expositors’ Conference with Steve Lawson and Joel Beeke.

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Gospel…

I just started reading through Gospel Worship by the great Puritan, Jeremiah Burroughs, and it is excellent. Here is a list of the “Gospel” series written by Burroughs. You can click on the cover to view it over at WTSBooks.

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Enjoying God through Word and Sacrament

In the Word we hear God’s voice, in the sacrament we have his kiss. The heart being warmed and inflamed in a duty is God’s answering by fire. The sweet communications of God’s Spirit are the first-fruits of glory. Now Christ has pulled off his veil, and showed his smiling face; now he has led [...]

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The Greatest Irony of Puritanism

“Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy” (Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints, 1).
These words satirically expressed by Ryken give the typical understanding of what people think when they hear “Puritanism”: cold, harsh, legalistic, austere, etc.
But having spent a week, all day every day, learning of the history of the Puritans and also [...]

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The Preeminence of Christ in Our Hearts

“Now the great aim of Christ in the world is to have a high place and esteem in the hearts of his people; to have there, as he has in himself, the preeminence in all things–not to be jostled up and down among other things–to be all, and in all [Col. 3:11]” (John Owen, Communion [...]

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An Antidote to the Inherent Pride of the Preacher

Wise words from D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Preaching & Preachers concerning pride and its antidote:
The sum total of all this is that the greatest of all the temptations that assail a preacher is pride. Pride, because he is set up there almost on a pedestal. He is standing in a pulpit, he is above the people, all [...]

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A Call To Examine Yourself

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you–unless indeed you fail the test? But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test. (2 Cor. 13:5-6)
Herein we see the Apostle calling on the Corinthian people [...]

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Now For the Good Stuff…

With classes wrapping up this week and finals the week after, I am looking forward to some down time as well as getting through some books over break. I am going to post a “book list” in a few days that I am going to attempt to get through over the course of 6 weeks before the [...]

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The Useless Physician of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

So many pulpits today spew forth “moralistic therapeutic deism” such as:

“A god exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth.”
“God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.”
“The central goal of life is to be happy [...]

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