Dan Greenfield

Category: Church History

  • A Prayer for Power on the Means of Grace

    O Thou, at whose almighty word The glorious light from darkness sprung! Thy quick’ning influence afford, And clothe with pow’r the preacher’s tongue. Though ’tis thy truth he hopes to speak, He cannot give the hearing ear: ‘Tis thine, the stubborn heart to break, And make the careless sinner fear.…

  • Prayer for Revival

    Let our mutual love be fervent, Make us prevalent in pray’rs; Let each one esteem’d thy servant Shun the world’s bewitching snares; Break the tempter’s fatal power, Turn the stony heart to flesh; And begin, from this good hour, To revive thy work afresh. —Olney Hymns, p. 150, no. 51

  • The Incarnation of Jesus Christ

    I’m submitting the following for this week’s “Pastor’s Column” in our local newspaper. If you have thoughts or suggestions, let me know by noon today! 🙂 —————– We just finished what for many is their favorite time of the year, Christmas. Increasingly our culture views this season in purely secular…

  • Christian Apologetics

    No mind, no wisdom. Temporary mind, temporary wisdom. Eternal mind, eternal wisdom. –Adoniram Judson, in combating what he called Buddhist “semi-atheists.” To the Golden Shore, p. 264.

  • J. Gresham Machen

    This is a nice article on J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) from the vantage point of one who was Machen’s student. His watchword, as it were, was: God’s Word is my command.

  • Let Us Love

    Let us love, and sing, and wonder, Let us praise the Saviour’s name! He has hushed the Law’s loud thunder, He has quenched Mt. Sinai’s flame; He has washed us in His blood, He has brought us nigh to God. Let us love the Lord who bought us, Pitied us…

  • What to Preach

    One should preach his beliefs, not his doubts. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 62.

  • Ministry Notoriety

    Notoriety always comes to the preacher who betrays his Lord or his gospel (60). –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 60.

  • Sincerity in Ministry

    (Commenting on 2 Cor 4:2) The temptation was often yielded to then as now, to put the best apples on top of the barrel, the best strawberries on top of the basket. The Judaizers made a plausible plea and show. Paul, in contrast, grounds his confidence on two reasons. One…

  • Humility

    The man wins more men to the ministry who is unconscious of any special halo on his own head. He sees only the face of Jesus his Lord. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, pp. 57-58.

  • Your Point of View

    The sense of the nearness of God in his own life and ministry is the overmastering conviction of Paul…if Paul is able to find joy in the midst of his misfortunes, he has pointed the way for every preacher of Christ. The secret lies in looking at one’s life from…

  • God’s Will

    It is easier to see the hand of God after we have passed through a crisis. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 41.

  • Mountains and Valleys

    The sun often shines on the mountain when it is dark in the valley (39). –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 38.

  • Call to Preach

    The temptation is easy to settle the question of being a preacher on the dead-level of business, expediency, and convenience. It is the spiritual view of the eternal values as seen by Paul in this prophetic passage that will win and hold the noblest type of man to the service…

  • Press On

    It is a great mistake for any preacher to reach a final conclusion in his moments of despondency. One can see better in the light than in the dark. The light will come if one press on towards it. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 37.  

  • Quit the Ministry?

    Deep down as Paul had gone, it did not occur to him to quit the ministry. –A. T. Robertson, The Glory of the Ministry, p. 28.  

  • A Pastor in Jeopardy

    At such a time [the day-to-day sameness and toil of ministry] one is oversensitive and imagines all kinds of slights and insults. The real difficulties and problems of the ministry are magnified out of all proportion to the facts. In such a case a minister is in jeopardy. He is…

  • The Glory of the Ministry

    I’m going to post several “sound bites” from A. T. Robertson’s 1911 exposition of 2 Corinthians titled, The Glory of the Ministry: Paul’s Exultation in Preaching. You can get it for free from Google Books (I am so thankful for Google Books! Has saved me a lot of $$$). It’s…

  • Whistling for Revival

    “Revivals, if they are genuine, do not always come the moment we whistle for them. Try and whistle for the wind, and see if it will come.” C. H. Spurgeon, The Soul Winner, p. 128.

  • Following Christ

    Is it your earnest desire to do all in your power to advance his cause and glory? Can you renounce every worldly object for Christ? If so, happy are you. But if not, your case is dreadful indeed. —Memoir of Harlan Page (p. 53), letter dated August 7, 1818