Pray on!
Facing many challenges at this time, from both outside and inside the church, what are Christians meant to do?
Jesus showed his disciples ‘that they should always pray and not give up’.
Sunday School
My family recently bought me an iPod. This introduced me to the wonderful world of downloading sermons via the internet. So I heard a lecture by Sinclair Ferguson (60 years old this year) given to students training in ministry. Sinclair is one of the best theologians of our day. He spoke about his life. Raised in Scotland, his mother and father were not churchgoers, but sent him to Sunday School. He was a bright boy and, partly because of that, he confesses that he was one of the naughtiest boys in the class. ‘If there was anyone I never believed would become a Christian’, he later overheard someone saying, ‘it was Sinclair Ferguson’.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …