Pastors

I recently received a letter from a young man asking advice about how best to follow Jesus in four key aspects of life. Here is my response.

Josef Tson, once the best-known pastor in Romania, was a suffering saint. At a time when the Christian faith had become virtually illegal, he openly preached the gospel. Police threatened him repeatedly with imprisonment and arrest.

Proverbs 31:28 describes Nanci perfectly: “Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also praises her.”

Everyone who communicates, preaches, or even tries to persuade someone of an idea has discovered that sinking sense that your sermon just isn’t as riveting as it could be. Or that you’re dull. How exactly does that happen?

With July 4 nearing, social media will undoubtedly be set ablaze with images of a few churches filled with American flags, singing patriotic songs instead of worship music, and likely even fireworks or pyrotechnics.

Pelagianism rejects the doctrine of monergistic grace and replaces it with a view of synergism, which involves a work of cooperation between God and man.

I could share many examples, but the point is, whatever wrong, frustration, or offense you’ve experienced shouldn’t become the lens you view everything else through.

Particle board preaching, like particle board furniture, can be made to look attractive from the outside, is affordable, and convinces us that it will get the job done; but it won't have lasting spiritual benefit for the souls of the people who listen to it. It is not preaching that lasts.