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R. C. Sproul addressed the 27th graduating class at WSC. The free audio is online here.

Excerpts from Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry at Creed or Chaos.

At Expositionalogistix

WSC alumnus Shane Lems in the latest Mod Ref.

Colin raised this question a while back on Unashamed Workman. He asked for comments and, as Mike had just touched on this during the WSC “Missional and Reformed” Conference, I piped up: Read the rest of this entry »

WSC student Mark Vander Pol gets it right.

Pastor John Sawtelle (WSC grad) is planting a new Reformed congregation, All Saints URC, in Brea, CA. This new congregation is under the oversight of Ontario URC.  The morning service is at 9:00 AM. I’m preaching from Mark 12:28-44 (”The Command, the Christ, and the Coins”) and administering holy communion. Read the rest of this entry »

A few days ago I responded to a post by Australian minister Gordon Cheng who raised a question about the centrality of preaching in “evangelical” ministry. I responded indirectly to his point (which he notes in his response to Colin) and took the opportunity to make a couple of related points.

His point, it seems to me, is to diminish the centrality and uniqueness of preaching by equivocating between the official, public, ordained administration of the Word and the unofficial witness to the gospel by the laity. Read the rest of this entry »

Gordon Cheng raises this question (HT: Colin Adams) as part of a brief post on a passage from Richard Baxter’s Reformed Pastor. Cheng says,

I’ve never really agreed with the evangelical emphasis on preaching, and never quite understood how evangelicals make so much more of this than of other forms of teaching. It seems to me that the emphasis on public preaching, or should I say perhaps ‘pulpiteering’—as against private and personal ministry through, for example, conversation or Bible study groups—is quite unbiblical. Read the rest of this entry »