As a follow on to the recent post about what confidential information pastors should (or shouldn’t) share with their wives, it seems worth spending a moment thinking about the idea of office. In this sense it refers to functions and particularly to . . . Continue reading →
Pastoral Ministry
What Pastors Shouldn’t Tell Their Wives
The Dangers of Too Much Transparency
Megan Hill, a Presbyterian pastor’s wife, has been writing about what pastors tell their wives and what they should tell them. I can answer that question in one word: nothing. By nothing, I mean “no confidential information.” A pastor may tell his . . . Continue reading →
Pastors Filling Up Christ’s Suffering
The Rev. Mr David Strain is speaking now in chapel at Westminster Seminary California. He is pastor of Main Street Presbyterian Church in Columbus, MS (PCA) and the guest of the student association. He talking about Colossians 1 as a realistic pattern . . . Continue reading →
Machen On Loving The Congregation
I know some preachers who are very good men, and very devoted to Christ, who seem somehow to let their Christianity make them cold and dead to all the movings of friendship. They do not outwardly lead the lives of hermits; on . . . Continue reading →
Face to Face: Fesko on Pastor as Scholar
Online Now: Audio of Sinclair Ferguson's den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry
The series is titled, “Not ourselves, but Jesus Christ . . . with ourselves: The Heartbeat of Gospel Ministry.” They are online now here.
Sinclair Ferguson den Dulk Lecture #3: The Pastor and His Preaching
The den Dulk lecture series was established by the den Dulk family in order to bring experienced pastors to campus for a week each academic year in order to give them an opportunity to speak to students about the ministry, about pastoral . . . Continue reading →
Sinclair Ferguson's den Dulk Lecture #2: The Pastor and His Type
Sinclair is at Westminster Seminary California this week. He is speaking on 2 Cor 4:7-8 about, among other things, the spirituality of pastoral ministry, the transience of the visible. Yesterday the students enjoyed a pizza lunch with Sinclair and today the faculty . . . Continue reading →
Sinclair Ferguson's den Dulk Lecture #1: The Danger of Losing Heart
Sinclair is speaking now, with his customary wit, charm, and insight on the danger of losing heart in pastoral ministry, on the difference between Paul’s conception of the spiritual realities of the ministry and the way ministry is often conceived today. Lord . . . Continue reading →
Sinclair Ferguson is Coming to Westminster Seminary California
And he will be giving the annual den Dulk lectures at WSC 23-25 March, 2010. The den Dulk lectures are given each year by an experienced Reformed pastor to share pastoral wisdom born of experience. The lectures will be at 10AM in . . . Continue reading →
Why Pastors Need A Seminary Education
Over the years many things have changed at Westminster Seminary California (WSC). In the most important ways, however, the seminary has not changed. We still believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God. We still believe the historic . . . Continue reading →
A Few Words to Student Preachers
As a teacher in a seminary but as one who does not teach preaching classes—I’m a historian—I see and hear student preachers but I don’t get to do much about it.
This Looks Really Good
A book on the Rev. John (“Rabbi”—because his Hebrew was so good) Duncan, a 19th-century Scottish missionary to Hungary. When you follow the link the Banner of Truth website will ask you where you are and then take you to the book . . . Continue reading →
Audio: Powlison on "The Puritans" and Biblical Counseling
At the CCEF site (HT: Feeding on Christ)
Powlison Critiques Kubler-Ross
At the CCEF site (HT: Camden Bucey)
Did God Leave Me When I Enrolled in Seminary?
Ryan at Sola Gratia raises questions that many first-semester seminary students ask. In essence the question/problem is this: Before I came to seminary I had an active devotional life and a vital, immediate, experience of God and now things have changed. I . . . Continue reading →
Ministering to the Dying and to Those Left Behind
Good stuff from Lane at GB