3 Ways to Encourage Your Pastor – R.C. Sproul Jr. offers up three really good ways to encourage your pastor. As I read these, I realized that though I am a pastor, I ought to be more deliberate in encouraging the other pastors at my church!
Building Healthy Churches – 9Marks has just released a helpful new series of study guides along with some new books on church discipline and church membership. Westminster Books has it all on sale; now’s the time to stock up!
Jane Goodall and Worshipping Chimps – This is truly an odd article to find at Christianity Today. They interview Jane Goodall who says that chimps have souls and that they worship.
2012 Band of Bloggers – Just prior to T4G, I and a bunch of other bloggers got together to discuss the state of modern Christian blogging. The audio is now available if you want to listen in.
Joel Osteen and Mormonism – Joel Osteen continues to lead astray: “When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God–that he’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that he’s his Savior–that’s good enough for me.” And, “Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.”
The Ugly American – Dr. Mohler writes about a blight on America: “By the end of the last decade, American officials were aware that sex trafficking was taking place in cities large and small. Women, along with boys and girls, were being kidnapped in far parts of the world and on the streets of American cities, to be sold into what could only be considered as sexual slavery.”
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than the man who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
