Making progress in your life, your ministry, and your preaching
Are you making progress …? Paul writes of his own self-discipline in making life-long progress: Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not…
‘Companions in patient endurance’
Paraklesis [‘encouragement’, ‘exhortation’, for life and ministry] Dear friends, companions, and fellow-workers, In Revelation 1:9, John describes himself as ‘your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in…
Still learning to preach in 2022!
In December 1967, as a first-year theological student, I preached my first sermon at St Thomas’ South Richmond, in Melbourne, then soon to be demolished, to a congregation of 4 people. What a privilege! It…
Planning a preaching program
Here are some ideas, developed from what I did as minister of St Jude’s 1982- 2002 1. Each year: At least one OT series. I included at least one Old Testament book because there was…
A vision of a praying church
A praying church: Comes to God our Father in prayer through the atoning sacrifice of Christ our mediator and high priest, prompted and taught by the Holy Spirit and his Bible, and lives as it…
Paraklesis. From, through and for him
Paraklesis [‘encouragement’, ‘exhortation’, for life and ministry] Dear friends and fellow-workers, Near the end of Romans, Paul invites us to join him in wondering at God’s wisdom and knowledge. Oh, the depth of the riches of…
Atomic fears
CS Lewis, ‘Living in an Atomic Age’, in Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays 1948 [Excerpt]… In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?”…
Annual review
Annual ‘godliness and good ministry review’ For the glory of God Peter Adam It is wise for people in gospel ministry to get feedback, to increase accountability, to gain wisdom from others about our lives…
Create in me a clean heart
Dear friends and fellow-workers, Time for a medical! Let’s test your life, actions, words. Here are the three tests; please administer them to yourself. ‘The mouth speaks what the heart is full of’ Matthew 12:34….