Volume 8, Number 4
The Shepherd Under Pressure
What sort of preacher pursues continuing education? Show-off scholars? Shoe-shiners and apple-polishers? Guys without enough real ministry going on to keep them busy?
To Stand in Joy Beside You
Through the Gospel we are “re-united” with God. No images are more stark, natural and real to depict God and us in the new life of faith than the ones implanted in God’s creative order.
The Preacher and Windshield Time
Do you have the Bible on CD for your car? Even a trip downtown to the hospital will allow you to listen to a dozen psalms or the whole of an epistle. This can truly salvage your day if it started out hectic.
On Being A Preacher of the Cross
On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation, 1518 (Eerdmans), by Gerhard Forde. To fill a need: “to make a modest addition to the understanding of the Theology of the Cross” (p. vii).
You Can Print That
Quotes from a variety of sources including Walther, J.H. Jowett, Rick Warren, and Martin Luther.