Advice to Pastors: Preach the Word

Posted on February 12, 2008 
Filed under Resources, Theology

John PiperJohn Piper’s sermon from the installation of a colleague is good advice –

My message to you is very simple and very precarious. It is 2 Timothy 4:2, “Preach the Word.”
I call it precarious, because there is a constant temptation to do other things in the place of this. There ARE other things to do in the ministry, as these letters to Timothy show. And we must do them to be found faithful. But none of them is treated as solemnly and forcefully as this one simple exhortation from the apostle: “Preach the Word.” …

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