Historical Portraits of Pastoral Care: Shepherding Like a Reformer
We can only do ministry because Christ is alive and has called us to enter his ministry as a conduit from which his grace is poured out. It is his ministry that will heal, speak, bless, save, comfort, and guide. So may we as pastors step out in faithful obedience to care for the flocks entrusted to us.
Episode 175: Geoff Chang on Spurgeon the Pastor
On this episode of the FTC Podcast, Jared Wilson talks with his MBTS colleague Dr. Geoff Chang, professor of church history and curator of the Spurgeon Library, about his new book on Spurgeon’s pastoral ministry, implications for megachurches, and more.
Episode 164: Thomas Kidd on the Fascinating Case of Thomas Jefferson
On this episode of the FTC Podcast, Jared Wilson talks with historian Dr. Thomas Kidd about his new biography of Thomas Jefferson, helping us separate fact from fiction in Jefferson’s life and spirituality.
Thomas Kidd on Why Pastors Should Care about History
Why should pastors seek to study and understand history?
Churchill and Church Leadership
Even for the gospel minister, personal courage is indispensable. Ministry is not for the faint of heart.
Lemuel Haynes and The Right Preaching of Justice
At once a Christian may feel drawn toward a sub-gospel approach to justice issues, in which doctrine takes a back seat to human concerns of flourishing and liberation, or equally drawn toward a non-applicational theology that divorces the gospel from its social implications. Haynes is a model way out of this false dichotomy.
John Mark Yeats on How We Benefit From Knowing Our Past
Series: Conversations
FTC.co asks Dr. John Mark Yeats, Dean of Students and Professor of Church History at MBTS, "How would Christians benefit in the future from know our past?"
Episode 070: The Most Significant Figure in American Church History You’ve Never Heard Of
On this episode of the For The Church Podcast, Jared Wilson and Ronni Kurtz discuss a pioneering pastor from American church history who is woefully unknown.
Was George Whitefield a Christian?
What do we make of the fact that the man who was perhaps the greatest preacher in American history and is still one of evangelicalism's favorite heroes owned slaves and propagated slavery?
The Man Who Died for the Lord’s Supper
Frith's call for Christian love doesn’t mean that he saw doctrinal debates about the Lord’s Supper as unimportant.