Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
Yesterday I was blessed to be able to spend some time with some friends listening to a series of lectures by Don Carson on the Primacy of Expository Preaching. There was much to challenge me–and the others too, I trust.
Before teaching on the primacy of expository preaching, DAC taught for a while on the importance [...]
Last Autumn at GFC we embarked on a journey. We endeavoured to ask and answer 26 of the most crucial questions that Christians should be asking–and should know the answers to. Basically, it was a sneaky (read: not boring) way to teach our people sytematic theology.
We taught this series on Sunday evenings, with various men [...]
The Toronto Pastors Fellowship has come to a close for another season, and the Toronto Pastors Conference is just about to get rolling!
While the TPF page has a media library where you can download all the free sermons and papers for pastors, it can at times be cumbersome to have to download so many files. [...]
This coming Monday is the final monthly meeting of the Toronto Pastors Fellowship for the 2008-2009 season. While I’m sad that it will be over for the next several months, I can’t wait for Monday to come, because the paper will be great!
I’ve just had a chance to read over Pastor Darryl Dash’s paper on [...]
One of the best things about serving with the Toronto Pastors Fellowship is that I get to read the papers ahead of time. I thought that this time I might share a tiny, little bit of that blessing with you.
Here is a sneak peek at a the paper Dr Pierre Constant will be presenting at the [...]
I’ve been thinking about preaching a fair bit over the past week or so. In particular, I got to wondering, What are the fundamental differences between preaching and lecturing?
I wonder if it would be safe to say that one of the most basic differences lies in the responsibility for understanding. Here’s what I mean.
In a [...]
This semester I was able to take Homiletics 2 at TBS. I have much to learn and much room to grow in the realm of preaching, so I was happy to take this course.
One of the great conversations we had in class this year was on the topic of the need to be preaching the [...]
I just noticed today that the messages delivered at the 2008 Carey Conference have been posted on the Carey website. There is some great stuff here for you to download!
Bill Bygroves, pastor of Bridge Chapel in Liverpool, was the main speaker for the evening sessions.
The title of the series was ‘Sacred Songs’ and each evening [...]
Recently for my homiletics class, I was given the assignment of interviewing my favourite pastor/preacher on the topic of sermon preparation and preaching. I’ll post some of the excerpts here. If it should strike you as interesting (and if you’re a preacher, it should!), then you can download the whole interview transcript here.
Let me also [...]
By the lack of posting on my blog, you could infer one of two things. Either there’s nothing going on worth blogging about or there are too many exciting things going on to allow me time to blog. Believe me, it’s the latter.
There are many things I’m really excited about just in the life of [...]
Bryan Chapell offers this important and instructive insight into whether it is more arrogant to preach the exlusivity of Christ, or to not preach the exclusivity of Christ. The criteria for whether the real arrogance is in preaching or not preaching, he argues, is whether or not the proclamation is true.
Proclaiming the message of eternal [...]
There are at least two things keeping me busy–but also keeping me quite excited right now.
The first is preparing to preach for this Sunday at GFC. We’re going through a series on our 5 Core Values right now. The first two message have been on (1) Truth, and (2) Humility. If the Lord is willing, [...]
The further along in the book of James we go, the more points there are when I think, ‘…Huh?’
It’s a bizarre experience to look ahead in the book, know that there are only a few weeks left to finish the last chapter and a half, and realize that you don’t really understand what they mean. [...]
There are benefits and drawbacks to preaching large portions of text. The benefits are too numerous to get into, but one of the drawbacks is that you don’t get to stop and to meditate for as long as you’d like on a single thought expressed in your passage, because there are so many other things [...]
For those interested, I’ve added an rss feed on the sidebar for the sermon-series I’m preaching through the book of James. Whenever sermons from that series are put online, it will be posted here as well. As always through sermonaudio, the sermons are free to download, or else you can stream them directly from the [...]
Yesterday, by God’s grace, I was able to begin our summer series of sermons from the book of James. I’ve titled this series ‘A Call to Consistency.’ I figure that’s about as close as I can get to a base theme that unites all the different emphases in James. Doug Moo refers to it as [...]
I love Scripture because it boldly declares. It doesn’t go around tip-toeing and trying to qualify everything. There are profound tensions in Scripture, but rather than attempting to soften them, or thinking that we need to explain them away, I think we need to embrace them and let them speak to us.
For most modern readers, [...]
This past weekend I was extremely humbled and blessed to be invited to preach at the Winter Retreat for the Nipissing University / Canadore College Christian Fellowship. We gathered on Friday evening at Camp Kahquah in Magnetawan, ON.
As a group, they’re studying The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges this year, so they asked me [...]
Sometimes I think I brag about the work that God is doing in our church too much. But then I get to speaking with brothers from other churches who are caught up in programs and boards and committees and all that stuff and they are so negative about church… it really makes me sad. They [...]
I have had the privelege of filling the pulpit at Grace Fellowship Church for the past few weeks while ‘the preacher‘ (aka kerux) was away on vacation. The past two Sunday nights I tried to draw some more practical thoughts together with regards to poverty of spirit (see here, here, here, and here for [...]
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