Showing posts with label ministry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ministry. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2025

The Vision (4.18.25): Stewards of the Mysteries of God

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  Image: Laying on of hands and prayer during Elder ordination at CRBC (4.13.25) Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on 1 Co...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Thirty Years Ago Today

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  From my twitter @Riddle1689: Thirty years ago today I was ordained to the gospel ministry at age 27 by the first church I served as Pastor...
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Monday, December 28, 2020

Book Review posted: Will Willimon, Accidental Preacher

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My review of Will Willimon, Accidental Preacher: A Memoir , appeared in Midwestern Journal of Theology , Vol. 19, No. 2 (Fall 2020): 94-96. ...
Friday, December 11, 2020

The Vision (12.11.20): Is any sick among you?

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  Note Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on James 5:13-20. Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

Festschrift for Pastor Albert N. Martin Forthcoming: A Workman Not Ashamed

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  I was pleased to be able to contribute an essay on pastoral theology, "The Administration and Administrators of Baptism", to the...
Monday, January 06, 2020

CRBC: Thankful for Ten Years of Ministry with Sermonaudio.com!

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CRBC got a nice gift in the mail recently from sermonaudio.com: A mug marking ten years of our church's broadcasting sermons, teac...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2019

WM 143: Devotion for Ministers on 1 Corinthians 4

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I have posted WM 143: Devotion for Ministers on 1 Corinthians 4 . Listen here . I was asked to give this devotion at a Reformed Ba...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

WM 104: D. Scott Meadows on Al Martin's Pastoral Theology

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Image: Al Martin with his new book on Pastoral Theology. Image: D. Scott Meadows preaching at the 1689 Conference in Indianapo...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Gleanings from Charles Bridges' "The Christian Ministry"

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Gleanings from Charles Bridges’ The Christian Ministry (original 1830; abridged edition, 1849; Banner of Truth reprint, 1967): Ou...
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Five Books on Ministry

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I enjoyed lunch and conversation this week with a new friend (a friend of friends), a student of theology, who was passing through the...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

John Brown on the trials of the ministry

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Note:  Below is one of the points of application from my sermon on Galatians 4:12-20. "Am I therefore become your enemy, becau...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Horton on ministers as God's covenant attorneys

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Here are more gleanings from Michael Horton's The Christian Faith on ecclesiology.  He makes the typical Reformed emphasis on the impor...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Phil Johnson on Mark Driscoll's "Pornographic Divination"

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The Reformed Baptist Fellowship blog recently called attention to an August 15 post by Phil Johnson on the Pyromaniac's blog titled ...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Comma or no comma in Ephesians 4:12?

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The “New Perspective” on Ephesians 4:11-12: I was reading Peter Master’s booklet “Your Reasonable Service in the Lord’s Work” (Sword and Tr...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

On Conferences

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Carl Trueman (a Brit who teaches at Westminster Seminary) had an interesting recent post  after attending a conference in the UK contrasting...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Friday Bible Study with CCCC

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Photo: Pastor Beine leads the opening of the Friday evening Bible study at CCCC. Last Friday evening, I had the opportunity to lead the Bib...

Bridges on the Minister's Avoidance of Worldliness

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In Charles Bridges’ (1794-1869) classic work on The Christian Ministry (Banner of Truth, 2006 [1830]) he lists the minister’s conformity to...
Monday, August 04, 2008

The Indefatigable Industry of John Calvin

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Charles Bridges in The Christian Ministry (Banner of Truth, 2006 [1830]) in a section on "habits of general study" praises the in...