God Never Saved any Man for being a Preacher.

I mentioned a week ago that I've been going through Richard Baxter's book The Reformed Pastor. I've so far learned much from my reading, in so much that I want to share some of them with you. I am persuaded that Richard Baxter's words in his book (or to me so far it seems like a rather elongated sermon) would find homage to the hearts of every Christian, as we are called to be, in a ...

Pastors, is Your Preaching Wimpy?

When Paul spoke to the Ephesian elders in his final meeting with them, he said these words: "Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God." (Acts 20:26-27) The true preacher of the Word seeks to have this as his ambition as well. God is not honored when men think so little of ...

The Market Driven Church

If they used as much... if they used 5% of the imagination involved in creating this roadshow that they've got going in their church to seriously understand the Bible and convey it, they would be amazed at what God would do by His Spirit. So we've got to hold the standard high, we've got to hold it first for ourselves. 'People wont listen to preaching so what we need to do is look at advertising, look at ...