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Clowney’s biblical theology of prayer: free PDF

Edmund Clowney, author of Preaching and Biblical Theology and Called to the Ministry, has also written a Biblical Theology of Prayer that is available free, via a downloadable PDF.
Clowney’s treatment of a call to the ministry (a term I don’t really like) is one of the best I have read. Regarding a call to ministry, [...]

Pastors are theologians … but they are shepherds too

I value the pastor as theologian model. I am thankful that there are several guys in training for pastoral ministry around me who value this model. However, I would like to hear more of an emphasis from scholarly-pastors in training on the shepherding element of pastoring, ala Richard Baxter’s “Reformed Pastor.”
In the zeal for robust [...]