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The investment strategies of our commercial banking industry and our capitalist economy are all about laying up for ourselves treasure on earth. Every investment planner with a shingle out there will help you lay up your treasure on earth wisely, to diversify your portfolio so as to achieve the right balance of risk and return
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It takes more than a good speaker to preach. It takes a Spirit-filled person. In The Heart of the Preacher, Rick Reed focuses on the personal heart preparation required before any preacher is ready to preach. In this interview, we ask him about his experience teaching prospective preachers and how it inspired him to write
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Who takes care of your soul? I’m just guessing that if you are like most of us you try and shrug off your own spiritual needs. After all, we’re trained theologians, aren’t we? We’ve been to seminary and that means we should have all the answers. We’re avid Bible students and we have soaked up
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When I was getting started as a preacher, the fact that preaching required hard work didn’t come as a major shock. My big surprise came when I realized the hardest work a preacher must do happens within the preacher’s own heart. I’ve found the most challenging part of a sustained preaching ministry is not the
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Ministry is an extraordinary calling, filled with great joys and difficult challenges. During Pastor Appreciation Month, we have the great privilege of honoring those who serve as shepherds of God’s flock. Many pastors want to preach better, but they don’t always know how to go about improvement. During October, we’re giving pastors the resources to
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Metrics. Every organization, it seems, has them now. I’m not talking about kilometers, kilograms, liters, and degrees centigrade. We tried all that here in America in the late 1970s, and it never really caught on. No, I’m talking about the numbers that fill in the blanks of reports, the numbers that are used to assess
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Why are the populism that hailed Napoleon, the nationalism that supported Bismarck, the naturalism of Darwin, and the nihilism of Nietzsche still with us in the twenty-first century? Of the making of many books there is no end—warns the Bible—but once in a while a book comes along that swallows up many others. Groen van
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We were deeply saddened to learn of Jarrid Wilson’s passing on the evening of September 9. His passionate and authentic faith inspired thousands. Justin Marr, who worked closely with Jarrid as Managing Editor, shares his thoughts on Jarrid Wilson’s life and work. Along with many others, I was heartbroken by the news of Jarrid Wilson’s
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Ethics is also part of philosophy. The first Greek philosophers, like Thales, were mainly interested in the material composition of the world. But with Heraclitus, and especially with Plato and Aristotle, people tried to learn from philosophers how to live. Philosophers have typically offered one of three general theories of ethics, sometimes coordinating two of
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In the history of God’s people, there have been a number of individuals who seem to have packed decades of spiritual maturity into a few short years of life. There is a spiritual intensity about such men and women that make them utterly unforgettable to their contemporaries. Such, for example were: David Brainerd (1718–1747) Ann
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