Tag Archives: Ministry
Pastor, Pray for that Jerk at Your Church
Intercession is the best arbitrator of all differences, the best promoter of true friendship, the best cure and preservative against all kind of tempers, all angry and haughty passions.
Preacher, Are You Preaching Law or Gospel?
The Law sends us to the gospel that we may be justified; the gospel sends us to the Law again to inquire what is our duty as those who are justified.
What Is Preaching?
What is preaching? Logic on fire! Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire. A true understanding and experience of the Truth must lead to this. I say again that a man who can speak about these things dispassionately has no right whatsoever to be in a pulpit; and should never be allowed to enter one.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Crucified Pastor
The man who preaches the cross must himself be a crucified man.
G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945)
HT: @cslchsnmore
Pastor, Don’t Preach Regurgitated Sermons
Your people need discourses which have been prayed over and laboriously prepared. People do not want raw food.
How God Calls a Person to a Special Work
The true order is: God makes a man holy by blood and fire and sharp discipline. Then he calls the man to some special work.
HT: @rayortlund
Pastor, Read and Then Read More
D. Martin Lloyd-Jones to pastors on reading theology after seminary: “Keep on reading; and read the big works.”
D. Martin Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
HT: @theoldguys_
Preaching Is a Commentary on the Preacher’s Life
A preacher’s life should be a commentary of his doctrine; his practice should be a counterpart of his sermons.
HT: challies.com
Remembering That Minister Means Nothing but Servant
The minister must always remember that the dignity of his office adheres not in his person but in his office itself. He is not at all important, but his office is extremely important. Therefore he should take his work most seriously without taking himself seriously. He should preach the Word in season and out of season in forgetfulness of self. He should ever have an eye single to the glory of Christ, whom he preaches, and count himself out. It should be his constant aim that Christ, whom he represents, may increase while he himself decreases. Remembering that minister means nothing but servant, he should humbly, yet passionately, serve the Lord Christ and His church.
R.B. Kuiper, The Glorious Body of Christ (Banner of Truth, 1966), 140-42.
Life Is Worship 