Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with… Continue Reading
One of the areas that I am weakest in pastoral ministry is in the category of personal visitation. Lot’s of underlying (some personality, some idolatrous) reasons for that. I like studying, writing, preparing sermons, preaching, and benefiting the church in… Continue Reading
“Men may try; but they will try in vain, when they attempt to convert the weapons for defending against infidelity, into bread to feed God’s hungry children.” -(Ichabod Spencer, Pastors Sketches, 59) In the context of this quote Spencer is… Continue Reading
Commenting on the invasion of the barbarians in the early 400’s Paul Orosius remarked: If the only purpose for which the barbarians were sent within the Roman borders was that throughout the entire East and West the Church of Christ… Continue Reading