A Lifetime of Holy Living in a Single Decade
Pearce died at what seemed to be a very young age, but, to many of those who knew him, he seemed to have condensed a lifetime of holy living and ministry into the decade that he was at Birmingham.
Pearce died at what seemed to be a very young age, but, to many of those who knew him, he seemed to have condensed a lifetime of holy living and ministry into the decade that he was at Birmingham.
The Timothy Trust is thrilled to be part of The Gospel Coalition’s upcoming national conference in Vancouver and we wanted to tell you a little about the ministry and the pre-conference event itself. Who is The Timothy Trust? The Timothy Trust exists to equip expository Bible preachers and teachers for the revitalization of the Canadian Church. Expository preaching and teaching happens when the meaning of the message preached is the meaning of the passage preached. It’s preaching, as Dick Lucas has put it, “that takes the text seriously.”[1] Our core conviction is that God works powerfully through his living Word (2 Tim...
The ultimate purpose of a sermon is to facilitate an encounter with God.
If you’re a preacher, don’t settle for the kind of advice the world can give. Give people truths that will sustain them when facing death. Give them a vision of God. Help people encounter him and the gospel. Give them something great and glorious they can’t find anywhere else.
In reading through the Gospel of John as part of my personal study time, I found that the story of the woman at the well showed me more about preaching than I had ever seen in it before (John 4:7-30). Specifically, I was struck by how Jesus spoke to the woman’s imagination and how this interaction helps me as a preacher to better understand my calling to preach to the imagination effectively. Calling People to Imagine In ancient Palestine the task of drawing water from a well did not require a good deal of imagination. You would go to the...