Thoughts on Scripture and life
for the glory of Jesus Christ
Weekly Roundup: Preaching & Preachers
For this week’s roundup, I dug into my archives and pulled a dozen articles about preaching. There’s something for everyone here: those who listen to preaching, those who want to understood good (and bad) preaching, and those who preach.
Weekly Roundup: On Reading the Bible
The end of 2019 is quickly approaching, which means that resolution and plans for 2020 are right around the corner! I’ve compiled some articles about Bible reading to help start the new year on the right foot.
Weekly Roundup: Santa Claus
This week I dug around in the archives for some articles about our favorite jolly man in a red suit.
Weekly Roundup: Depression
Articles on depression: depression and the holidays, William Cowper, pastoring amidst depression, and counselors and depression.
God Moves in a Mysterious Way by Indelible Grace
Weekly Roundup: gratefulness, ungratefulness, not reading the Bible, and legalism
Gratefulness in loss, ungratefulness as the root of sin, when I don’t want to read the Bible, and legalism as old as Eden itself.
The Hero Who Risked All for a Whore
What’s unexpected about Christianity is that its great hero doesn’t risk all for a damsel but for a whore.
Weekly Roundup: Psalm 119, Christian liberty, women in the church, Christ and Him crucified
Rescued by Psalm 119, four principles for Christian liberty, women as vital to the church of Christ, and preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Seeing Heaven in the Face of Death
Thus, eternal life is the end and fulfillment of all good things, for which God has purchased us through his Son. This is the goal on which our gaze should be fixed throughout our earthly pilgrimage. This is the treasure that we should unceasingly desire. This is the hour and the blessing to which all the plans and efforts of our lives should be inclined. ...This is our true country, our permanent city, in which our citizenship has been acquired by the merit of the death of Jesus Christ. This is the home that we long for, amidst the banishments, the weariness, the dangerous fears of this valley of misery and the shadow of death. This is the safe refuge and the beautiful harbor toward which we sail amidst so many waves and storms that constantly trouble the world. This is the blessed land where we will dwell by means of death.
Weekly Roundup: Building the Church, Leaving a Church, Humility, and Freedom
Building up the church, leaving toxic churches, Christian humility, and biblical freedom to know, heed, and obey the truth.
Weekly Roundup: Listening to Sermons, Avoiding Boring Sermons, and Pastoring
Resources on sermons: listening to sermons, avoiding boring sermons, and pastoring as more than just preaching sermons.
{Renewing Your Mind} Everyone Believes This Doctrine
Weekly Roundup: Unsettled by the Bible, Simul Justus et Peccator, etc.
Unsettled by the Bible, justified and a sinner, how to be a family, putting the pretty lyrics of 1 Corinthians 13 back into the church.
Weekly Roundup: Suicide, Heaven, Sin, and Authority
An answer to suicide, unashamed to seek heaven, taking sin seriously, and how authority authors life.
Weekly Roundup: Productivity, pseudo-expositional sermons, soli Deo gloria, chiding sin in love.
Productivity, pseudo-expositional sermons, soli Deo gloria, chiding sin in love.
{Churchmen Podcast} Ep. 6 - Cultivating Strong Relationships with Fellow Leaders
It was never intended for you to get through your ministry years alone. But cultivating and retaining strong relationships with fellow leaders remains one of the most difficult things a man in ministry can do. Pastor Daron asks Pastor Jerry's perspective on one of the most dynamic types of relationships a leader can and must have.
Dear Biblical Counselor
Is Jesus still marvelous to you, dear counselor? Or has He become yet another tool in your counselor’s toolbox? Is He merely the means to some nebulous end of Christian maturity, or is He more? Is not true Christian maturity marked by a heart caught up by, enthralled by, completely won by the grace and truth of the Lord Jesus Christ? The Son of God became the Son of Man that sons of men might become sons of God. Friend, let us cherish that above all! To whom shall we go? He has the words of eternal life; He is the resurrection and the life! Christ is the Beloved of all creation, God’s only begotten Son in whom He is well-pleased (Mt 3:17). Is Christ your Beloved? Are you pleased in Him?
Weekly Roundup: Busyness and rest, church singing, stains of shame, and through the Bible to Christ
Busyness and rest, church singing, stains of shame, and through the Bible to Christ.
Five Lessons From Biblical Counseling Training
Through the training, I came to understand that biblical counseling is better defined as “intense biblical friendship and discipleship, as counselor(s) walk alongside a counselee through his sin and suffering, to help him behold Jesus Christ as both perfectly sufficient and ultimately satisfying in every trial and temptation, repent of his unrighteousness and the idols of his heart, and put on the righteousness of Christ according to the commands of Scripture, so that God would be glorified in his heart, his relationships, and indeed his entire life.”
Biblical Counseling, the Hole in My Holiness
I am still very, very new to biblical counseling. But the sails are unfurled, the ship is sailing, and the skies are bright and sunny. I am excited to learn how to best love someone, by helping someone apply the truths of Scriptures to their life, that they might be enthralled with Jesus Christ and love Him all the more. Is there any greater ministry than that? I know of none.