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Elemental Preaching | Leadership Journal This is a very thoughtful, helpful piece on preaching. Worth a long, slow read.

If you were asked the question, how would you answer? Here’s what Paul wrote to Timothy on the subject: 1 Timothy command certain people no...

Sleep preserves and enhances unpleasant emotional memories A recent study by sleep researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst i...

Maybe your ambition is to be described in somewhat more glowing terms than ‘a competent minister’. But that’s Paul’s claim for himself and h...

In  this interview , John Dickson was asked about how to effectively engage the broader culture. His remarks, although pertaining to Austral...

A Messy Environment Makes It Harder for You to Focus on a Task - Andrew O'€™Connell - Harvard Business Review In an experiment, people w...

There’s been a really healthy return to emphasising the centrality of Jesus in the whole of Christian experience and as the focus of all the...

When you imagine something does your brain think you see it? What is the difference between imagination and reality? Sometimes, not that muc...

Mark 1:35-39 is a great lesson in quiet time maintenance: get up early, far away from other people and pray. Except it isn’t. It’s much dee...

More Reflection, Less Action "we too often view the opposite of ‘doing’ as ‘not doing’ and then demonise inaction. In fact, good judge...

Isaac inherited God’s promises to Abraham. In Genesis  26:12  we’re told that he planted crops and in that same year  "reaped a hundred...

Disciples cannot stockpile…grace and strength beforehand but must learn from Jesus’ own example of prayer on the Mount of Olives that they a...

What does James have in mind when he speaks about looking in the mirror ( James 1:23 )? Is he wanting us to see our sins and to come away fr...

The cult of overwork "The perplexing thing about the cult of overwork is that, as we’ve known for a while, long hours diminish both pr...

Moses is directed by the LORD to make a tabernacle and all its furnishings, exactly like the pattern he would be shown (Exodus 25:9). That t...

The Unbusy Pastor (Eugene Peterson) The word ‘busy’ is the symptom not of commitment but of betrayal "If I vainly crowd my day with ...

It has to go down as the sermon illustration with the most potential to get me into huge trouble. I spent all that afternoon going over it a...

Tim Challies has stirred the pot on the subject of Sunday evening services and many have expressed their appreciation and agreement. I’m gu...

When assaulting Jesus with temptations, Satan quoted from Psalm 91 , He will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your wa...

He was a deserter; a failure. And the cause of a sharp disagreement between two Christian workers, one of them his uncle. So sharp in fact t...