Regular Bible reading and prayer constitute the bread and butter of the Christian life, yet these are the things most of us struggle to do from day to day. Paul Grimmond takes another look at the problem, and discovers that quiet times are all about our response to the gospel.
Vintage Jesus: Timeless answers to timely questions Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears Crossway Books, Wheaton, 2008, pp. 256. It is easy to like Mark Driscoll. How can you not like someone who founded a megachurch in his 20s, who has the flare of a stand-up comedian, and who
Donald Howard shows us why sermon preparation is still a matter of much-needed hard work.1There is a joy in pulpit preparation—a sense of expectation which spurs us on. But work is needed:There are those [wrote WE Sangster] who argue that the preacher ought to lose the duty in joy ...
Want to read the Bible with someone? Go Swedish, says Peter Blowes. For 19 years, I worked in Argentina in a context where many university students were unaccustomed to reading. Bible studies in that country (with its strong Catholic influence and practices expressed in the current evangelical style) were often