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The Preacher's Function
The true function of a preacher is to disturb the comfortable and to comfort the disturbed.
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Don't Kill the Horse
It is possible to throw our lives away foolishly by burning the candle at both ends. When Robert Murray McCheyne, only thirty years old, lay dying, he ...
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Money as a Test
God entrusts us with money as a test; for like a toy to the child, it is training for handling things of more value.
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Yet I Will Praise
Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a ...
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Ministry the Worst of All Trades
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
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Hidden Treasure
When I was in high school, I worked for a time at an armored-car company, Brinks Armored Co. in San Bernardino, California. My job was to take care of ...
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Practical Atheism
Most professing Christians, from liberals to fundamentalists, remain practical atheists. They think the church is sustained by the services it provides ...
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God Never Gets Anxious
God ... "works always in tranquility." Fuss and feverishness, anxiety, intensity, intolerance, instability, pessimism and wobble, and every ...
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Being a Pastor: A Multi-faceted Job
The modern preacher has to make as many visits as a country doctor, shake as many hands as a politician, prepare as many briefs as a lawyer, and see as ...
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Temporary Scaffolding
I look upon foreign missionaries as the scaffolding around a rising building. The sooner it can be dispensed with, the better; or rather, the sooner it ...
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