A Prioritized Preacher

Ministers know that in the ministry you do a hundred things, and they are all important. When I was helping to start a seminary, at the same time I served full-time as the only minister for a church of eight hu...

New Commentary Series from Crossway

Studying the Scriptures is one of the most rewarding ventures known to man. For in it, we explore the depths of God, and are confronted not only with His holiness, but with our sinfulness, and thus our desperat...

Foreword

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The book you now hold in your hands, or that perhaps lies on your desk, is a resource of almost unparalleled richness in its field, representing as it does an immense labor of love on the part of its editors an...

Preaching with Cultural Intelligence

As North American congregations become increasingly diverse, individualistic, and pluralistic, the cultural diversity beckons preachers to assume that someone in the pews is objecting, ''Pastor, I disagree with...

Spirit-Filled Jesus

1. What led you to write “Spirit-Filled Jesus?” I’ve been a Bible-teaching pastor preaching through a few dozen books of the Bible over the course of a few decades, and I preached through the entire book of ...

Keep Your Head in the Clouds

Paul was a child of two worlds. He was passing through a world broken by sin, while his truest citizenship belonged to a world where God’s desired will was constantly on full display. He kept his head in the cl...

Abram and the City of God

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The call of Abram in Genesis 12:1–3 consists of two commands (“go” and “be” a blessing ). Each command is followed by three promises. The first promise is “I will make you into a great nation,” and the last pr...

Hope in the Dark

If you think about it, life wasn’t fair to Jesus. He was perfect in every way. Jesus loved the unlovable. Healed the hurting. Cared for the outcasts. Touched the untouchables. If we look at his story from God’s...

Come to the Waters

“Study of the Bible must be the consuming passion of a believer’s life,” James Montgomery Boice exhorted worshipers in one of his fourteen sermons through Psalm 119. His congregation at Tenth Presbyterian Churc...