Praying for a Pastor

An older, wiser brother in the Lord, Pastor Ligon Duncan, (one of the T4G founders) put these thoughts together on how one might pray for their pastor….
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1. That [your pastor] would know and love the living God, would have a saving interest in Christ, being purchased by His blood, and thus would be bound [...]

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Day Two (Wed. PM) at The Banner Conference

A ‘MINI–SESSION’
After some time for fellowship (and helping a brother try to repair a laptop), the Wednesday afternoon sessions began … with something rather different. At 3:15 PM Pastor Mark Johnston (a Trustee of the Banner of Truth, a pastor from the UK) spoke for 15 minutes on

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Don’t mumble, mask or mangle the good news

In his smart new book, THE GOSPEL AND PERSONAL EVANGELISM, Mark Dever makes the following point — in the very manner he is commending!
Clarity with the claims of Christ certainly will include the translation of the gospel into words that our hearer understands but it doesn’t necessarily mean translating it into words that our hearer [...]

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What’s the Good News?

Mark Dever’s answer…
“Here’s what I understand the good news to be: the good news is that the one and only God, who is holy, made us in his image to know him. But we sinned and cut ourselves off from him. In his great love, God became a man in Jesus, lived [...]

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God’s Gospel Testimony

On Sunday nights our church takes time in the service to hear testimonies from those gathered. My typical introduction says, “Who has something to share to encourage the saints? Either a morsel from the Word that blessed you this week? Or answered prayer, or a kind providence of God — great [...]

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Spotting Big Questions in Little Books

Coming home from the T4G Conference with 20+ books (most were gifts!) not only adds to the stacks of books in my Pastor’s Study but adds to my weekly reading agenda. It’s not that I will try to read them all in a few week’s time, but before I can decide which ones to [...]

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T4G Photos online

Here is a page at the T4G site with photos from the recent conference. There are few of the speakers, so I hope they add more.
And here are some other photos, at a fine blog site by Tim Challies, taken on Day Two of T4G, featuring John MacArthur and the congregaiton, etc (including the [...]

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Earthquake in Louisville!

Well, okay, the center of this morning’s 5.2 earthquake was in Illinois, but I felt it in my hotel room in Louisville, KY, this morning!
I was up at 5:25 AM in order to catch my ride to the airport. I was in my room on the 14th floor of the Galt House [...]

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T4G Thursday

The conference planners were well aware of the needs of pastors when they selected Piper and Mahaney to speak in the last two sessions of T4G. We have been greatly inspired and challenged and humbled. We need to “be done with lesser things” and make ample room in our lives for the great [...]

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T4G Wednesday Lunch & PM Sessions

When 5,000+ folks adjourn for the lunch hour it can seem like a new olympic event. There are a limited number of fast food restaurants (and the fancy ones are too expensive and slow). My strategy: let my friend Ron walk back to the hotel, while I jogged west a couple of [...]

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