The nursery of the Holy Spirit, welcoming children in the worship J I Packer but when it has grown

but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree

The process of getting and staying married is severely malfunctioning in our land

but it should

David has recently retired from his role as Principal and Director of the School of Preaching at Sydney Missionary and Bible College (SMBC)

The inaugural volume in the HOTE series

The nursery of the Holy Spirit, welcoming children in the worship J I Packer but when it has grownPublic worship is the nursery of the Holy Spirit. As you enter the sanctuary, you notice them at once. Then, as you take your seat next to a family, they are right there beside you. Throughout the ensuing service, you see them and hear them. The presence of children in public worship is not only striking, but also increasingly strange in modern American church life. In fact, the idea of your children sitting or standing next to you during prayer,