the waiting country

In preaching I seek to do something I don't do in teaching: in teaching I'm conveying information with the best clarity I can; in pr...

Marilynne Robinson on being asked about the language of public discourse (which could also be helpfully applied to preaching, methinks) I...

Ministers must pray much, if they would be successful...Some ministers of meaner gifts and [abilities] are more successful than some that a...

"the extraordinary moment when someone attempts to speak in good faith, about something that matters, to people who attempt to listen ...

For Ames, writing sermons was a spiritual discipline that was unseated by an apophaticisim of sorts. The spiritual discipline fails in the ...

Peter's foundational preaching in the earliest days of the church provides a model for preaching to every generation. It must be practi...

Then the leaders of families, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the official...

Trying to get God into a verbal formula is like trying to force a large and irritated cat into a small basket. As soon as you tuck in his h...

The books I most enjoyed reading this year, without any why's or wherefore's - you can go check them out if you so desire. (Oh and...

Reading 'church' for land/place/farm in this from Wendell Berry makes for worthwhile musing: Analogies have tied things together ...

Interviewed by Jim Leach of NEH , Wendell and Tanya Berry said the following about people thinking to take up farming... BERRY: Well, I h...

I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds...

Every night you're trying to prove your self-worth. It's like meeting your girlfriend's family for the first time. You want to ...

In speaking of the Lord's Supper as "an epitome of the gospel of redemption", Vos notes that he could not then (and perhaps we...

Are we sure that we feel with the frequency and intensity which our greater privileges demand the desire to meet with God? Or are we satisf...

It is certainly striking that these expressions of passionate desire to come into living fellowship with God are found in the Old Testament...

Paul's letter to the Galatians is an important text for reflecting on the continuities and discontinuities of redemptive history. On th...

Commenting on the "peacefulness and serenity enveloping the figures of the patriarchs" (in the Genesis narratives), Geerhardus Vo...

Whether the call was to believe or to follow, to do or to bear, the obedience to it sprang not from any earth-fed sources but from the infi...

One of the ways to recognise narcissism within ourselves is to notice when we have not yet accepted the field, the sphere of action, that G...