Foundations of Pastoral Care

Petersen, Bruce L. Foundations of Pastoral Care. Kansas City, Kansas: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2007. 321 pp. Petersen’s book was written to help pastors understand the importance of pastoral care. He believes that over the years, many people have lost the significance of the pastoral ministry and all that it encompasses. However, because …

In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling

Lartey, Emmanuel Y. In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling. Second Edition. London and New York: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003. 194 pp. This book was written to bridge the gap that existed in pastoral care and counseling. Before Lartey's work, pastoral care and counseling had been assumed to be understood in …

The Glory of Preaching: Participating in God’s Transformation of the World

Johnson, Darrell W. The Glory of Preaching: Participating in God’s Transformation of the World. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009. The glorious work of preaching should be understood in light of its divine significance. The Triune God has chosen to speak to humanity through the medium of spoken and written words and anticipates humanity to …

Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages

Robinson Haddon. Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 2000. Although an old book, Robinson’s text is filled with depth and content. Because the book was firstly written in 1980, one may be tempted to think that the book is no longer relevant to the contemporary preaching …

Ordination

The rite of ordination is of special importance to the church as attested to by the testimony of Scripture. According to the Bible, several meanings are applied to it such as “appoint,” “establish,” and “issue an order.” In its religious sense, the word ordain means “to invest officially with ministerial or priestly authority,” that is, …

The Call and Its Implications

The Bible clearly teaches that to each member of the church, God has given a special calling. The calling of each member in the church is a vivid proof of the sovereignty of God over the churches emphasizing first, that God has a general call for all believers, and secondly, that those who are called …

WordDeed: The Missing Factor in Most Churches Today

There is a great need today for the church to realize the full mission of God. Christopher Wright begins his book with this statement, “Mission is what the Bible is all about…”[1] Many believers today stagger in the mist of mission confusion, not because they are supposed to be confused, but because there has never …

The Second Coming of Christ and the Preparation of the Church

Sermon Transcript Preached at Passover Celebration 2020 Good morning saints. Today is our second day at this conference and I am hopeful that we are all enjoying our fellowship with one another in the presence of the Lord as we celebrate Christ, our Passover. Now, yesterday, we spoke about the significance of the Passover and …

The Meaning and Significance of Passover

This year once again, we recall the wonders of God’s love and grace that he has lavished freely to us in and through Christ. It was not because of our own doing, wisdom or religious rites that salvation was made possible, but by the offering of the body of Christ, God’s sacrificial Lamb who took …

What Is Your Mission?

In most African churches today, it has become customary to be faithful church attenders with no sense of God’s mission for the individual believer. Most believers are content that they have found the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, healer, and deliverer. As long as they are in a church where the “man of …