The Broadcast

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Ever wondered what other preachers notes are like?
Well here you can find out:
http://www.joshharris.com/2008/08/the_preaching_notes_series_int.php
Dever goes for the script type notes.
Keller goes for the ‘how the heck can you preach from those notes’
Driscoll goes for the - ummm notes! what notes?
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If there is one verse that keeps going around my head at the moment it is this one.
Hebrews 13:14 ….here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. 
Every urban city church should have this verse at the very centre of there vision.  As churches we seek to build transformed [...]

The highly respected American author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last week.  Here is a fascinating extract from a speech that he gave.  I love the bit on worship, so so close, yet so so very far away.
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There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods [...]

The Church is an entity which has outlasted many state, nations and empires, and it will outlast those that exist today.  The Church is nothing other than that movement launched into the public life of the world by its sovereign Lord to continue that which he came to do until it is finished in his return in [...]

 Spurgeon recounting his conversion

There was a day, as I took my walks abroad, when I came hard by a spot for ever engraven upon my memory, for there I saw this Friend, my best, my only Friend, murdered. I stooped down in sad affright, and looked at Him. I saw that His hands had been [...]

I was reminded today of a story Dr Lloyd Jones sometimes told to underline the importance of knowing the cost of your salvation.  It goes a little something like this:
Suppose you are away on holiday.  You recieve a note from a friend back at home to say that he has paid an outstanding bill that arrived while [...]

Today we met with some folks from May Street Presbyterian Church in the centre of Belfast.  May Street Presbyterian Church is rich in history, built for the Presbyterian reforming minister Rev Henry Cooke (who is the figure of the now well known statue in Belfast referred to as ‘The Black Man’). The Church, built on three levels, [...]

We are in Belfast at the moment.  Only a short visit though.  Have to wait a few months before we finally land for good.  I really cant wait.  Flying over the ever changing city always gives me goose bumps.  We have got a busy few days ahead of us.  Tomorrow we attend a wedding of a [...]

An extract from Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor.  This one stopped me in my tracks
 
Let us consider, what it is to take heed to ourselves.
1. See that the work of saving grace be thoroughly wrought in your own souls. Take heed to yourselves, lest you be void of that saving grace of God which you offer [...]