Crumbs from the Master's Table

Commenting on Nehemiah's reforms, J. I. Packer : Thoughtful pastoral leaders, like Nehemiah, always focus on families and family life, f...

"Pastors have to help their congregations read culture so that we know what forces are trying to shape us. I believe tha...

"Teaching is showing someone how to live and how to die." —Gabriel Moran, Showing How : The Act of Teaching (Valley Forge, PA: T...

"The good teacher, of Christian doctrine or anything else, knows that one must not only state facts but also show how . One successfull...

Edwards: Especially will a Christian spirit dispose those who stand in a public capacity, such as ministers and magistrates and all public...

In a section showing how "a Christian spirit disposes persons freely to do good to others," in the fourth sermon in his sermon ser...

Commenting on the situation in Corinth that Paul is confronting in 2 Cor. 10:1ff, Professor Carson draws out this important contemporary app...

Addressing some of the crucial lessons to be learned from Paul's passionate pen in 2 Corinthians 10–13, Professor Carson speaks to one o...

Commenting on 2 Corinthians 10–13, and speaking of how Paul handled the crisis in Corinth generated by the accusations of intruders and inte...

"The only man who should be counted a real theologian is he who can build up men's consciences in the fear of God." —John Ca...

The prophetic literature packs quite the potent punch. It is heavy hitting, sparing none, not least the leadership of the ancient or modern ...

Edwards: Two things that are exceeding needful in ministers, as they would do any great matters to advance the kindgom of Christ, are zeal...

Edwards: I think there is a great deal of reason from the Scripture, to conclude that no sort of men in the world will be so low in hell, ...

From  Taylor's 10 Key Events  on fundamentalism and evangelicalism in modern America, this is key event number 6: Machen Defends the...

Calvin commenting perceptively and powerfully on 2 Tim. 1:7:  God governs his ministers by the spirit of power that is the opposite of th...

Al Mohler's book The Conviction to Lead  is outstanding. Chapter 5 is titled "Leaders Understand Worldviews: The Leader Shapes the ...

I've been reading a very good book by Albert Mohler that has surpassed my expectations:  Conviction to Lead . To be honest, I expected t...

"Fairly regularly, we see debates over the meaning of character in leadership and public life. Most of it is nonsense. We know that cha...

Doug Wilson offers a helpful  review  of  The Liberal Arts: A Student's Guide   by   Gene C. Fant Jr. What these educators point out abo...