The Word to the World
Recently, we as a congregation, had the privilege to corporately appoint a fourth man, Edwin Steytler, to the eldership of Brackenhurst Baptist Church. Having observed his life, home and ministry over his years as a church member, and particularly over the period of a year
In the life of the congregation, sheep reproduce sheep, while shepherds reproduce shepherds. And to the degree that shepherds reproduce shepherds, the flock will be in a healthy state to be fruitful, multiply and replenish the fold. This, like God’s creation mandate to Adam and
In one of his many sermons on the Ephesians marriage text, Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes, How many of us have realized that we are always to think of the married state in terms of the doctrine of the atonement? Is that our customary way of thinking
Paul loved the church. And he had a particular love for the church at Ephesus—the church in which, as far as we know, he spent more time than any other church (with the exception of Antioch). Paul stayed in Ephesus for three years, and his