A Quiet Life Sets Up a Loud Testimony

In this post, J. D. Greear notes, “The quiet life is not about living invisibly, however. It’s about working for the prosperity of your city and pointing people to Jesus as you do so. Peter and Paul outline five components for ‘iving quietly’.”

Preaching Between Two Worlds

This is an interview with the late John Stott by R. Albert Mohler. It is not new, but Stott’s assessment of preaching in the world of Scripture and the present world (and the book by the same name) remains helpful today.

Preaching the Psalms

“Just as songs in a hymnbook are not intended to be sung sequentially from the first to the last in their printed order, so also the psalms are not intended to be preached from the first to the last in their scripted sequence. Rather, these are the ultimate texts for topical preaching—i.e., the godly and responsible shepherd, understanding the people and the times, picks a specific psalm that addresses a pertinent pastoral issue of the season.”