The thoughtful Christian is compelled to admit that in our time there is very little true worship of the Lord. We have our so called…
We’ve discussed the fact of depression in pastoral ministry and outlined some of its causes, both from the nature of the task and from the…
It rained last night just before church. It was beautiful. The temperature dropped into the low 70’s and the cool rains fell. After a long…
John’s six-verse letter to the Ephesian church in Revelation 2 gave several commendations to a fifty-year old congregation. They labored diligently for the cause of…
My phone rang, but the call was from an unknown number. The voice on the other end was a 25-year-old man named Daniel. He had…
English Standard Version Reader’s Bible. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2018. Reviewed by Don Johnson Just about a year ago I spotted Crossway’s ESV Reader’s Bible…
Ed. Note. In the most recent installment of this series, Pastor Sweatt discussed areas of pressure unique to pastoral ministry. In this post, he describes…
Chivalry died in the 1970’s, this week’s hearings prove it. Sexual harassment, assault, and abuse have been at center stage this week. One of the…
Another thought-provoking article popped up recently in the Theology section over at CT.1 The subject of this brief piece is clothing and its place in…
Rachel Mitchell will be questioning the Supreme Court nominee tomorrow. Some media organizations picked up an interview we did with her in 2012 for our…
The NT uses three corresponding words to describe this role of church leadership. Pastor The first word is pastor or shepherd, an overarching word God…
Ed. Note: In the first post in this series, Pastor Sweatt introduced the topic of affliction and depression in Pastoral Ministry. Many issues may be…
The Supreme Court nomination hearing seem to be a theater of the absurd—and sleazy. With new and unsubstantiated accusations today the American people are plunged…
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit. Ephesians 5:18 This command seems to be ignored today, and…
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that He had said that He would…
2 Corinthians 4:2 When you set out to shine the light of the gospel to nonbelievers and believers alike, you may not anticipate the adversity…
One of C.S. Lewis’s enjoyable reads is his Screwtape Letters, a collection of “letters” written by a senior demon to his understudy, his nephew demon.…
The failure of pastors is sadly too much in the headlines in recent months. The reasons are many. Our culture is increasingly hostile to our…
History is repeating itself. The events of the 20th Century in the fundamentalist modernist controversy are cycling through again. The resurgence of conservatives within the…
Hugo, Fran, Floyd, Andrew, Katrina (to name just a few) and now Florence. But how about Charley? It was exactly fourteen years, one month, and…
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