Author: VF Admin

Pastoral visitation has become less common than it once was. Ministers are busy. Churches can be large and demanding. Many have settled into a model of ministry that is almost entirely public—preaching, planning, leading, and moving from event to event. Yet pastoral work is not complete when the sermon ends. The pastor who feeds the…

In Iain Murray’s book on J.C. Ryle, Prepared to Stand Alone, he quotes Ryle as making the following observation in his day: “However eloquent or apparently knowledgeable a preacher may be, there will be something seriously lacking in the man who is not to be found in the homes of his people. Sermons which only…