This is not easy to write in that the subject of redemptive pain can't be explored fully in a simple blog post. But I believe it's a topic we shouldn't run away from. I'm not a masochist. I don't go looking for pain. But I do believe that pain is more useful than we...

Never suppose for a moment that preachers are simply telling other people what to do. The scariest thing about preaching is that the truths you say aloud are those which definitely cause your own heart to beat that little bit more quickly. There's never any sense of...

Dave preached from Luke 23:32-43 last night, looking at the salvation of the penitent thief. Initially he considered the many ironies of Calvary:1) how Jesus was mocked there by those who said He could not even save Himself and yet He actually saved the thief (and the...