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...
In last week’s eNewsletter, Pastor Bennett shared with the congregation steps our staff has been taking to deep clean the church facility in light of COVID-19. To be sure, this intense cleaning will...
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...
This week I’d like to share some worthwhile resources. We know that the Holy Spirit guides us in prayer (Rom. 8.26; Gal. 4.6; Jn. 14.16), and we know that Scripture warns against praying mindlessly (Mt. 6.7) and growing lax in our prayer life (Lk. 18.1-8). However, what are we to do during...
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...
For the first quarter of 2020, I have committed to study closely the topic of hospitality. Partly, this is a result of pondering themes in Romans 12-16, the closing section of Paul’s letter focused on the life of the church body in a culture hostile to Christianity. In addition to...
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...
