Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. (Acts 20.28) Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not ...
In 1542 or thereabouts, an anonymous tract was published in Italy called Tratto utilissimo del beneficio de Giesu Christo (On the Benefit of Christ’s Death). One of the most important literary productions of the Italian Reformation, it was so popular at the time that within the space of six years, about 40,000 copies had been ...
As was mentioned in a wonderful sermon preached tonight by Pastor Rob McCurley on Heb. 13.17, it is a saying among Dutch Reformed ministers to their congregants: “Pray me full, and I’ll preach you full.” What a true saying, which illustrates how much pastors — and other church officers — need and depend upon the ...
Jim West, Drinking With Calvin and Luther, p. 209: …a California restaurant contains this approximate wording on one of its walls: “In heaven the English are the police, the French are the lovers, the Germans are the mechanics, the Italians are the cooks and vintners, and the Swiss run everything. In hell, the English are ...
Matthew Henry writes about spoiling the Egyptians on Ex. 35.20-29: These rich things that they offered, we may suppose, were mostly the spoils of the Egyptians; for the Israelites in Egypt were kept poor, till they borrowed at parting. And we may suppose the rulers had better things (v. 27), because, having more influence among ...
WELCOME TO THE CONTINUING COLLAPSE! By Bruce N. Shortt, J.D., Ph.D. Exposing Government Schools: The Youth Ministry of the State Churchof Secular Humanism February, Anno Domini 2010 "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."(Groucho Marx) ?? Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician’s corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintance sneered ...
As Pastor of Preaching at GFBC, part of my responsibility has been leading us to worship in a manner fitting our theology and philosophy of ministry. This has included developing a theological and practical approach to music that fits our doctrine. Most of this task now rests on the capable shoulders of Richard Rector, who ...
We have churches defined by contemporary vs. traditional music. Churches that sing only hymns vs. ones that sing all praise. We have children’s church and Wednesday night youth “worship” gatherings that meet separately from the adults. We have black churches and white churches, liturgical churches and skit-infested, prop-saturated churches. We have hell-fire and brimstone churches ...
The Internet has been abuzz for the last several days with the news that Dr. Philip G. Ryken, senior minister at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been elected as the new president of Wheaton College. Apparently the news of his election was leaked to Christianity Today and picked up by other bloggers before ...
Update: We left out an important word in Mike Horton’s response below. We’ve put it in bold to draw your attention to it. Sorry for the confusion! One of our Facebook friends asked a great question and we’ve asked Mike Horton to clarify some remarks he made in his recent Christianity Today article on Lent. ...