Baxter Directions for a Peaceful Death is an article of 15 points on a Christian approaching his death and what he should be thinking about. This theme is good for the sick, but everybody should also meditate on these things. (Baxter is reformed).
bs29 The Golden Rule explains this golden principle of treating others as you would have people to treat you.
Topics: What it doesn't say | God analyzes your treatment of others | The First and Second Commandments | Settle with the brethren before pretending to be spiritual | Compassion for others | Humility as a Base | Kindness and Kindness | Never return evil for evil | A Spiritual Shortcut | Conclusion.
Read the Tract: bs29 The Golden Rule.
People are the same everywhere No matter where you go, people have the same problems across cultures and places. This article is for pastors, from churchplantingworkshop.com, and explains how turnover in churches is to the preacher's advantage (and the pastor as counselor). I speak to the reuse of counseling and preaching material.
Read the article: People are the same everywhere.
Preaching to Offend no One is an article about frankness in preaching and preaching on things that need to be addressed, but many preachers shy away from these.
Topics: Comments on Brandon Cox's Article | What is the real problem? | A Profile of a Professional Man of God Preacher | Cowards are not going to make it to heaven. | Greed is the Tail that Wags the Dog | Balance
Excerpt: A good professional will do his job, however it inconveniences the people he touches. This is how a preacher who is a man of God will work. He tells his people the truth. Explaining the truth, so everybody understands it, he then motivates them to change their lives. A good preacher obeys God explicitly as much as he understands what God wants.
Preaching is like going to your doctor. A superb doctor examines you, does tests on you, and then he has a summary visit with you where he tells you all the things wrong with you, and how you need to 1) lose weight, 2) stop eating red meat, 3) get more exercise (or begin to exercise because you don't look like you have worked up a sweat since a cop pulled you over for speeding), etc. He tells you the truth, no matter how "offensive" it is.
Read the Article: Preaching to Offend no one.
Helpful Windows User Tip for "Searching Everything" on your PC. The Everything Search utility program is a freeware file search utility that is superfast and very useful for finding all occurrences of a file. It takes about 3-6 seconds to start, but after that, every search is just about instantaneous. Very fast, very useful. I highly recommend you download this free PC utility program if you ever have problems finding a file on your PC Computer.
twtutorial.com Helpful Tip "Everything Search".
Note: You can grab and drop files from this tool to other windows.
Burroughs Gospel Worship 14 chapters (263 pages) which are each a sermon on how to properly worship God. (format PDF)
“Jeremiah Burroughs’ Gospel Worship has greatly influenced my understanding of biblical worship. It is one of the most important books I have ever read.”
–R.C. Sproul
Download: Burroughs Gospel Worship.