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Month: September 2019

How to Have a Good Fight

Conflict is truly everywhere. We are sinners who have deeply rooted selfishness and pride. And when you put us together with other sinners who also have deeply rooted selfishness and pride, you’re going to have a bad time. Recently, I listened to a workshop delivered by Danielle Sallade on Biblical Principles for Resolving Conflict. I’ve read enough about this (and been in enough conflict) to say that this was an excellent, helpful, practical workshop that is well worth taking the time to listen to (audio is available). In addition to listing the common personality-styles of dealing with conflict (withdraw, yield, win, resolve) and outlining a biblical theology of how to love others and our call to be peacemakers, Sallade also provided highly practical steps to…

Letters to My Students: On Preaching

The health of the church rises or falls with the pulpit. It isn’t wild or controversial to say that preaching is God’s divinely ordained means for communicating his Word, nourishing his church, and for redeeming a people for himself. In Letters to My Students: On Preaching Jason K. Allen (president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and associate professor for preaching and pastoral ministry) writes out of his experience both as a preacher, and a teacher of aspiring preachers. With chapters like Eight Tips for Beginning Preachers, Preparing Your Sermon, and A Final Checklist Before You Preach Allen has provided a resource which is highly practical, helpfully specific, and undoubtedly better equips every preacher to rightly interpret and expositionally bring to bear God’s Word upon the…