Recently Leadership Magazine commissioned a poll of a thousand pastors. The pastors indicated that 12 percent of them had committed adultery while in ministry – one out of eight pastors! – and 23 percent…
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Knowing that he has been drafted, fitted for ministry, entrusted with a message, and sent out in the name of the Lord, the minister ought to demonstrate the proper authority…
The following is an excellent list of questions for potential pastors. I remember when, as a young Independent Baptist, sitting through a Q&A session on a Sunday night where the…
IT is scarcely possible to treat of some subjects without running into commonplaces: their very importance has made them trite, just as we observe great highways to be most beaten….
WHEN I look back on the years which I have spent in the ministry, I cannot but think that much benefit would have arisen from such honest and plain advices…
THE Church is the mirror, that reflects the whole effulgence of the Divine character. It is the grand scene, in which the perfections of Jehovahare displayed to the universe. The…
THE Divine original of the Christian Ministry has already opened a view of its dignity far above any earthly honour or elevation, and such as the infidel scoff can never…
BECAUSE the nature of things consisting, as this doth, in action, is known by the object whereabout they are conversant, and by the end or scope whereunto they arc referred;…
OUR Lord’s illustration of the necessity of a previous counting of the cost in important undertakings forcibly applies to the Christian Ministry. Too often has the neglect of serious and…
IT is of the utmost importance to grasp the whole compass of the Christian Ministry. The view of one side only of the prospect (whichever side that may be) must…
MR. NEWTON’S important remark may be considered as an axiom-‘None but he who made the world can make a Minister of the Gospel.’ He thus proceeds to illustrate his position…
Editor’s note: A minister, about to write an article criticizing a fellow minister for his lack of orthodoxy, wrote to John Newton of his intention. Newton replied as follows: Dear…
THE prophet’s complaint-‘Who hath believed our report?’ has applied to every successive Ministry in the Church. It was echoed in reference even to the Ministry of Him, who ‘spake as…
Why Baxter? His theology was not entirely sound. His desire to promote church unity sometimes betrayed him into seeking common cause with those who were far removed from the biblical…
Taken from the book ‘The Reformed Pastor’ One of our most heinous and palpable sins is PRIDE. This is a sin that hath too much interest in the best of…
