Around the Horn (July 12)

How to Discourage a Grieving Friend Perhaps your words of encouragement and your advice are not as helpful as you believe them to be. What worked for you in your grief may not hold the

Around the Horn (July 5)

Pastor, Hold Fast Until Relieved At times the pastorate can be discouraging and, as Jared Stacey argues here, humiliating. He goes on to make the case that the battles in which the pastor fights are

True Preaching is Indispensable! What is it?

In September 1967, D. M. Lloyd-Jones gave an address for a student conference at Westminster Theological Seminary on the topic, What is Preaching? The address is included in the Banner of Truth book Knowing the

Andrew Fuller Friday: Fuller on the Love of Country

Seek the peace of the city. The term here rendered peace (שלם) signifies not merely an exemption from wars and insurrections, but prosperity in general. It amounts, therefore, to saying, Seek the good or welfare

Around the Horn (June 28)

The Most Damaging Attitude in Our Churches Perhaps we are guilty of it and don't even realized it. We think we are offering "constructive" criticism, yet what we are actually doing is engaging in cynicism. Like

Book Review: Mere Hope: Life in an Age of Cynicism

Duesing, Jason G. Mere Hope: Life in an Age of Cynicism. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2018. 172 pp. INTRODUCTION “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” With these words the