Around the Horn (September 10)
Daily Vigilance for Lifelong Productivity In this podcast (which is transcribed here), Pastor John Piper, at 80, offers advice for having a lifetime of productivity. Yet he notes, "The real question is how to be
Andrew Fuller Friday: On Peace and Prosperity Among Believers
“Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace.”—Rom. 14:19. My dear brethren, in complying with your request to address you, on the present occasion, I shall study plainness of speech. I shall
Around the Horn (September 3)
Pastoral Fortitude: Courage in the Ministry of Word and Prayer "The virtue of fortitude plays a unique role in pastoral ministry. Particularly, it is seen in the ministry of Word and prayer. As the pastor
Andrew Fuller Friday: On True Repentance and Revival
Once more, It would be profitable to recollect the best parts of our lives, and compare them with what we now are. Think, backsliding Christian, what an effect those sacred truths have had upon your
Around the Horn (August 27)
Five Words in a Known Tongue "God has raised up people in local churches whose job it is to translate the indecipherable verbiage of the scholar into the language of the people. It is pastors,
Andrew Fuller Friday: On the Nature of God Justifying the Ungodly
The question is not concerning any secret persuasions in the mind of man, or any secret purpose in the mind of God; but simply this, Do the Holy Scriptures, which form the statute-book of heaven,
Around the Horn (August 20)
Engaged but Not Alarmed "How, then, should Christians engage the news? We should not look away as though the sufferings of others do not matter. But neither should we consume every crisis, dispute, and controversy as
Andrew Fuller Friday: The Gospel and Experiential Religion
Some good people have contracted a strange prejudice against the doctrines of the gospel, accounting them dry and uninteresting matters. They like experimental religion the best, they tell us. But I do not understand the
Around the Horn (August 13)
The Ruinous Hatred of Flattery "“Subtle” sins of speech like flattery can be more dangerous than the obvious ones because they don’t tend to register on our radars like other sins do. A temper tantrum
Andrew Fuller Friday: The Foolish Exchange of Sin
Departing from God, and indulging ourselves in sinning against him, is a kind of exchange, but it is a foolish one; it is an exchange of liberty for drudgery and slavery, of peace of conscience