Today, in the Adult Class at OURC I began a series of talks explaining the “Nine Points” of “pastoral advice” adopted by URCNA Synod Schereville in 2007. Here is the first 30 minute talk:
From PCA pastor David Strain. Related HB posts: Candid Comments for Candidates (pt 1) Candid Comments for Candidates (pt 2)
I’ve been trying to follow recent events in the Siouxlands Presbytery but I’m confused about what’s happening. I’m not expert in the Book of Church Order of the Presbyterian Church in America (and I’m not going to become so) so I assumed . . . Continue reading →
This year, the annual Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry will be brought by the Rev. Dr. Sinclair Ferguson on March 23, 24 & 25, 2010. Dr. Ferguson will deliver three lectures at 10:00 a.m. each day . . . Continue reading →
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 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 →
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 →
The series is titled, “Not ourselves, but Jesus Christ . . . with ourselves: The Heartbeat of Gospel Ministry.” They are online now here.
Office Hours this month talks with Dr Dennis Johnson, Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Seminary California. Dennis is one of the original faculty members at WSC and has taught New Testament as well Practical Theology and served as Academic Dean for . . . Continue reading →
Joel D. Fick (M.Div. ’03) is a church planter and pastor at Redemption Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Gainesville, FL. Prior to serving at Redemption OPC he served as an Associate Pastor in the PCA. He and his wife Marianne have been happily married . . . Continue reading →
It’s become clear in recent months that the FV/NPP controversies in the broader evangelical and Reformed worlds haven’t gone away. A leading congregation in the Gospel Coalition has implicitly endorsed N T Wright by having him speak to a church-sponsored gathering. There . . . Continue reading →
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 →
In response to Jason Stellman’s monday post the question has arisen as to what should be required for membership in a confessional Reformed (e.g., Three Forms) or Presbyterian (Westminster Standards) congregation. The argument has been made that, in American Presbyterian churches, the . . . Continue reading →
This week Office Hours talks with the Rev Terry Johnson, Senior Minister, Independent Presbyterian Church, Savannah, GA. This episode is available now on iTunes. It should be available on the website later today. We’re still taking calls at 760 480 8477. Leave . . . Continue reading →
He writes: For those of us in the PCA there is great merit in interacting with these essays. I liked the book so much and thought it to be so timely that I purchased several copies and gave it to the elders of . . . Continue reading →
The Rev Dr Derke Bergsma is a minister of God’s Word. That isn’t just an office he holds but it is what he is, sola gratia. By definition, a minister is a servant of God’s Word, he only announces what God’s Word . . . Continue reading →
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 →
Part 3: His Theology of Consolation in The Institutes. III. Consolation and Pastoral Ministry For Calvin, christian consolation is not only a theological reality but it is also the result of good pastoral practice. Christians often fail to appropriate the consolation they . . . Continue reading →
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 →