Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
The Toronto Pastors Conference is only days away… if you’re not coming, you’ll be missing out! When we were planning the conference and we first invited Mike Bullmore to come I thought to myself ‘A lot of people probably won’t know who Mike Bullmore is. So how can we fix that?’ One step we took [...]
It is very easy to get used to hearing excellent, biblical, engaging preaching every week. Praise the Lord that solid preaching is the norm, not the exception, at Grace Fellowship Church! That being said, yesterday was an exception–God blessed the preaching of his word in remarkable ways so that it came with great with even [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I just wanted to pass along word to those of you (especially those outside the GTA) who haven’t been able to make it out to the Toronto Pastors Fellowship meetings. Our media library contains all the messages (as well as the papers, in pdf format) that have been delivered at our monthly gatherings. There are also [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
CH Spurgeon’s sermon “A Woman Which Was a Sinner” is based on Luke 7.37-38. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to [...]
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 [...]
Bob Kauflin (lead worshiper at Covenant Life Church) has posted notes on what looks like it was an awesome session from the WorshipGod ’08 Conference. He’s also got a link to download the mp3 of the sermon. Check it out: David Powlison on the Imprecatory Psalms (Isn’t it interesting how much Powlison looks like he’s [...]
These are some notes taken from the sermon I preached this past Sunday at GFC. I was preaching from James 4:13-17 and the necessity of realizing our absolute dependence on God before we do any planning–even mundane, day-to-day planning. You can listen to the whole sermon here to get the context for the notes that [...]
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 [...]
As I lamented yesterday, preaching through James 4.1-12 quickly made me a little sad because I wasn’t able to pursue some rabbit trails that I would’ve loved to go down. One of those was how this passage should instruct us guys in our husbandry. In verse four, the people of God are referred to as [...]
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 [...]
Over the last few Sunday evenings at Grace Fellowship Church, my friend Paul McDonald has been opening up Galatians 5.13 for us. The verse reads like this: For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Over the flow [...]
While several have made admirable attempts to catalogue all the free online D.A. Carson sermons they could find, this is the first such list I’ve come across for Dr Thomas R Schreiner. You can view the list here. Make sure that if you know of any others, you point them out in the comment section.
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 [...]
It seems that the Psalms are the centre of much attention in evangelicalism in North America these days. The Psalms is one of my favourite books, so this is exciting to me. It has saddened me over the years to see how many Christians are somewhat unable to understand, identify with, and apply the Psalms [...]
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 [...]
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