These words of James are perhaps more on minds now than they have been for some time. At first glance, that is a very good thing. James says, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a...
For the Sunday evening services at St. Helen’s Bishopsgate, in London, they are studying Ephesians. You’ll notice in my post, Finding Good Sermons, that St. Helen’s is one of my favorite sources for solid expositional preaching. Here at Covenant, we have been...
Last Wednesday Dr. Robert Erle Barham delivered a masterful talk at Covenant College, Seeing the World Through Poetry. Dr. Barham is associate professor of English at Covenant College who studied at UMC-Chapel Hill and Queen’s College (Cambridge). His specialization is English...
I enjoy preparing, praying over, and preaching sermons. As you might suspect, I also enjoy listening to sermons. In fact, even though some preachers consider it scandalous to listen to sermons in preparation of a sermon, I still do. I love sermons, learn a lot from sermons, and enjoy citing...
Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman of 9Marks host a regular podcast called, Pastors’ Talk, which I listen to regularly. Recently they shared a helpful discussion about expositional preaching as the normal diet for the Christian life. You can listen here. By the way, to paraphrase, Mark defines...
Last Thursday evening we invited Al Dayhoff to speak to us on evangelism. Al is the founder of Evangelize Today and was invited by our presbytery to lead an all-day workshop on evangelism. I am happy to a part of a presbytery that spends time (and money) to develop our ministry...
On Sunday, Jan. 12, we will rejoin our preaching series from Romans. Prior to the Advent season we made our way through the end of Romans 11. We begin again with Romans 12.1-2. In October of last year, Sinclair Ferguson and Ian Hamilton were invited to Grace Baptist Church of Carlisle, PA...
It may be premature, even anti-spiritual to some, to be looking ahead to the New Year when the season of Advent has just started. You may ask, “Why speed up time? Settle down. Relax.” In the words of Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska, “haste is...
One of my very favorite preachers, Dr. Liam Goligher of Tenth Presbyterian (PCA) in Philadelphia, recently shared an article written by Dr. Craig Carter of Tyndale University, Toronto. I mentioned this article in my Midweek class, “Listening to sermons, skillfully,” as we were...
Dr. Han Madueme, Assoc. Professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College, delivered an excellent chapel talk on Nov. 18. Don’t be misled by his title: “Casting out Demons at Covenant College: or something close enough...” His approach to the subject is a beautiful picture...
