You often hear statistics that indicate that pastors are unhappy and wanting to leave the ministry. Here, LifeWay’s Ed Stetzer has uncovered some balancing data.
The Gospel-Centered Marriages for a Glorious Church Audio is now available for pre-order!
To pre-order a CD set, click HERE and to pre-order an MP3 set, click HERE . Your order will ship out 1-2 weeks after the conference.
The following messages are scheduled to be included:
- Scott Brown: Gospel-Centered Marriages for a Glorious Church, Part 1
- Joel Beeke: Learning About Marriage from Our Spiritual Fathers
- Scott Brown: Gospel-Centered Marriages for a Glorious Church, Part 2
- Doug Phillips: Issues and Answers Regarding Early Marriages
- Steve Hopkins: How to Split a Church through a Courtship (more…)
We have just sold out seating for the Gospel-Centered Marriages for a Glorious Church Conference! If you were not able to get a seat, you can register for the conference live streaming. You will be able to watch the keynote sessions live and download the audio for the breakout sessions as they are uploaded to the website.
For more information about virtual attendance, click here. To sign up on the conference waiting list, click here.
Even though registration for the main event is closed, you can still register for Burnings in the Soul, a pre-conference men’s luncheon!
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Here is a message that I gave during the Life of Washington Tour about George Washington.
This evening (during the Family Foundations in Sound Doctrine webinar), we will discuss two wonderful yet hotly discussed topics: Christian Liberty and God’s Regulation of Religious Worship.
The Second London Baptist Confession of 1689, which seeks to chart its way in accordance with the inerrant Word of God, is an excellent teacher on these topics.
Join us this evening to discuss these topics. There is much joy and liberty in them. Please bring questions to the discussion.
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My Sunday sermon from Matthew 9:27-38 shows us that the greatest priority of the church is the proclamation of the “Gospel of the Kingdom.” This happens when God’s people are moved with compassion. These narratives in Matthew 8 and 9 take us into two of the greatest hallmarks of the gospel of Christ: First, the bowels of the compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ toward those who are without a shepherd, and second, the necessity of spreading His fame by “preaching the gospel of the kingdom,” as Jesus did and as His true disciples ought to do.
Erik Weir presented his testimony at the Father/Son Retreat of a selfish life transformed to a life aiming for biblical conformity.
Erik Weir began as young entrepreneur. From the lemonade stand to Wall Street, Erik pursued riches, yet God arrested his life.
Through a series of circumstances and the Bible, God transformed Erik’s heart and transferred his love from worldly gain to biblical vision. Verses that God used to alter Erik’s heart included: 1 Kings 18:21, Malachi 4:6, Psalm 16:4, Proverbs 15:27, Luke 16:13. (more…)
As everyone knows, we have been advocating breaking what we believe is a destructive custom – age segregation in the church. Most people also know that advocating this has come at a price. Here is how Richard Baxter explains what happens when you oppose a destructive custom:
Custom, as I said before, is the thing that sways much with the multitude; and they who first break a destructive custom must bear the brunt of their indignation. Now, somebody must do this. If we do it not, it will lie upon our successors; and how can we expect that they shall be more hardy, and resolute, and faithful, than we?… But if they do prove better than we, the same odium and opposition must befal them which we avoid, and that with some increase, because of our neglect; for the people will tell them, that we, their predecessors, did no such things.
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, Page 271, Benediction Books (January 13, 2010)
Last Sunday, I preached on Matthew 9:14-26, which contains one of the great glories of the gospel in this passage: You get newness of life – new wine, new wineskins, and completely new clothing.
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People often want to put a patch of religion on their unshrunk cloth. They want to make themselves better. It seems easier than newness of life. This mindset is contradicted in Matthew 9:14-26, which presents us with a question from the disciples of John and the healings of two people, whose hopes were shattered. One was a girl who was well for 12 years and then died, and the other was a woman who had been sick for 12 years and had spent her livelihood on physicians.
Our text opens with a question from the disciples of John. They ask, (more…)
Tonight during our Family Foundations in Sound Doctrine, we will be reviewing what the Baptist confession says about these two powder keg issues. Are the Law and the Gospel contradictory? Has the law become irrelevant? Tonight you will experience what this historic confession of faith says. Charles Spurgeon remarks on the law:
Regeneration is a work by which the law is fulfilled; for when a man is born again there is placed in him a new nature, which loves the law of God and is perfectly conformed thereto.
How many times have you heard someone say, “This is confidential, you won’t tell anyone right? Well, here is how things normally go when people say, Just Promise Not To Tell Anyone. For more on the subject of the tongue, you can listen to the message by me or by Jason Dohm.
Church Killers by Scott Brown
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Gossip and the Right Use of the Tongue by Jason Dohm
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Labor Department Data: There are only 1.75 full-time private sector workers per social security recipient. Welcome to the welfare state. This should terrify us.
