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The Pastor’s Desperate Need for the Holy Spirit

on July 2, 2019

You and I are not God. Therefore when Jesus says that his disciples (and their successors in the pastoral office) will do greater works than he (John 14:12), he obviously doesn’t mean that they will do divine works under their own power. Rather, as fully authorized servants of Christ, his ministers are endowed and equipped

Why Reading the Bible Theologically is Vital for Discipleship

on May 21, 2019

To read the Bible rightly is to read it as the word of God with and for the people of God, yesterday and today. This is more radical than it sounds. For more than two hundred years or so, the Bible has been treated in the academy as a document of the university, that is,

Five Ways Church Leaders Can Manage Their Time

on October 3, 2018

A pastor’s schedule is a difficult thing to manage. You are never truly “off.” It seems as if there is always an emergency that must be addressed, a member to be met with, a fire to extinguish, and someone to encourage. Also, you are supposed to write and preach a Scripturally faithful and winsomely delivered

Hope Is as Close as the Risen Christ

on August 29, 2018

This is a guest post by Dr. Daniel Bush. Daniel is pastor of NorthPointe Church in Union, KY, and the author of Live in Liberty: The Spiritual Message of Galatians and Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God. His newest book is Undefended: Discovering God when Your Guard Is Down. Attending

Preparing Your Heart and Mind for Seminary

on August 22, 2018

Danny Zacharias and Ben Forrest wrote Surviving and Thriving in Seminary to equip students with the skills to succeed—spiritually, relationally, and academically—while attending seminary. In this excerpt, they speak directly to new and prospective seminary students about the challenges they may face when they arrive on campus. Like many seminary students, you may have grown

The Monster Within

on October 30, 2017

This guest post was written by Daniel Bush, author of Undefended: Discovering God When Your Guard Is Down, Live in Liberty: The Spiritual Message of Galatians, and Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God. My wife loves to observe a day many love to hate: All Hallows’ Eve, the night folks traditionally prepared for All

Have We Devalued the Significance of Followership?

on April 4, 2016

Leadership books line bookstore shelves and continually pop up on best-seller lists. But is modern society’s fascination with leadership causing followers to miss out? What if you desire to meaningfully contribute to your organization as a follower, with no aspirations for leadership? Where’s the book for you? Allen Hamlin Jr’s Embracing Followership: How to Thrive

Craig Bartholomew on the Heart of Biblical Religion

on February 4, 2016

The possibilities and challenge of application in preaching are summed up in the phrase, “Land the plane!” I owe this provocative metaphor comparing a sermon to flying a plane to my friend, colleague, and rector, Ray David Glenn. It is not unusual for us to discuss in the days leading up to a Sunday how

Allowing Jesus to Direct Our Lives

on January 5, 2016

Finding the right path to take in life is an ongoing challenge. It’s easy to flail in the realm of possibility rather than face the realities in front of us. Waiting upon the LORD is no easy virtue. Jesus tells us, “Enter through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the

Abraham Kuyper on Adam, Noah & the Church

on December 22, 2015

Noah became in fact the second progenitor of the human race; not that he replaced Adam, since Noah himself was the fruit of human procreation, as God had not directly formed Noah by his own hand. Noah inherited his nature and character from his parents and grandparents, which had not been the case with Adam.