Gospel Ministry in Light of the Resurrection

Doing Gospel ministry can sometimes feel like a job for the defeated among a defeated people that works with a lot of defeat. You have a minister laboring to see a church grow. A youth worker seeking transformation amongst his teenage congregation. A missionary trying to swim against the culture upstream. But as our modern …

The Main Audience in Ministry Showbiz

Sometimes Gospel ministry can feel like a performance. On a Sunday morning the preacher is staring before a congregation of individuals from all walks of life and with all kinds of troubles and joys. A number had an amazing week and couldn't wait for Sunday. Others can't wait to leave. Some already think highly of …

The Enemy we Easily Overlook

In Gospel ministry it's easy to get obsessed with the enemies out there. We can feel helpless before scheming false teachers and imagine they are our greatest enemies. But I think we forget the two greatest enemies of our ministry, Satan and ourselves. It's good for us to think of how to counter false teaching …

The Ministry of Critics

When we think God has called us to the ministry we think of words like the Gospel, the lost and those needing discipleship. We imagine walking together to establish the kingdom either where Christ is not known or clarifying the Gospel where there exists confusion. I don't think any of us comes along to be …

Christian Ministry in a Post-Truth Era

The hardest war to fight is the one you don't know you are part of. It's when you are blamed for what you don't even know. When accusations are levelled and you are called names without knowing what you've done. For most Christians that's how it feels to live in this post-truth era, especially on …

Teach me the Gospel everyday

Lord forbid that I should lose the wonder of the GospelTo see a sinner so wretched forgiven and loved so dearlyA self righteous man made aware of his filthy ragsTeach me this Gospel everyday for I forget it daily When the Word falls from my heartThe comfort of this globe sets in so quicklyWhen my …

The Gospel strategy picked up by Coca-Cola

The greatest and most well known companies of the world still spend so much on advertising and they do that in the most prime hour. You won't watch the news to the end before seeing an Ad from Coca-Cola even though when we say soft drink in any event that's all anyone thinks. Why? Because …

When Calling Fails, the Gospel prevails

People get into their line of work for all kinds of reasons. For some it's their talent, passion and gifting, others saw a need they wanted met while for others, well, that was all that was on offer. The dream is when they love their job and find fulfilment in it. They have a reason …

The Tragedy of Good Preaching

It's that moment, you've just finished preaching. Normally you dread this moment because you aren't sure if that sermon was any good. You struggled to show the big idea of the passage. You are not sure if the connection from the Old Testament to the Cross made any sense.  You had a few jokes that …