Several years ago I was asked by a dear friend who was then an Elder in his local church to give some advice on looking for a new Pastor. I had a delightful meal with him and his wife and asked him what sort of man they were looking for. This church was – and…
1748 HT: Dan Graves “THE 10TH (that is, in the present style, the 21st) of March is a day much to be remembered by me; and I have never suffered it to pass wholly unnoticed since the year 1748: on that day the Lord sent from on high and delivered me out of deep waters.”…
I have been spending a lot of time in recent weeks considering the whole subject of leadership. There is, as I will spell out in a future post, a crisis of leadership in the Church, at least here in the UK, and I suspect further afield. But, with those thoughts filtering in my mind I…
1842 HT: Christian History Institute After a lawless youth, George Müller became a Christian and immediately began to live a life of full commitment to Christ. Although he did not consider himself to be a man with any special gift of faith, he undertook an orphanage ministry based entirely on donations. He determined never to ask for…
1780 HT: Christianity.com When the church becomes a state-supported official religion, churchmen tend to become tepid officeholders. The zeal characteristic of the Scottish clergy in John Knox’s day had become diluted by the early 19th century. Hard as it is to believe, the moderate majority of Scotland’s preachers resisted Sunday schools, saying they would put…