On the inaugural episode of the OPC Committee on Diaconal Ministries podcast, my friend David Nakhla interviewed me about my ministry as a deacon at Shiloh Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, NC. You can listen here.
My edited and newly typeset version of John G. Lorimer’s work The Deaconship is now available in paperback on Amazon. Lorimer was a Church of Scotland minister who joined the Free Church of Scotland when it was formed in 1843. The book includes a forward from Dr. C. Nick Willborn of Covenant PCA in Oak Ridge, TN: This little book also sets forth practical good the office can accomplish when rightly distinguished from the office of elder and fully honored through the recognition of and ordination of biblically qualified men....
I wrote an article for the OPC denominational magazine on the diaconal response to Hurricane Florence. You can read it here.
The following are notes from a lesson I taught to our men’s leadership class at Shiloh Presbyterian Church in 2018. You can listen to the audio of the session here. Acts 6 Background of the Diaconate Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables....
At the OPC Presbytery of the Southeast conference for deacons, I spoke on “Resources for Deacons.” You can watch the talk here or listen to the audio here.
I was invited on the Presbycast podcast to discuss my website reformeddeacon.com. You can listen here.
The Reformed churches have always held the office of deacon as essential to the church’s life. Following the pattern of Acts 6, our churches have sought to find “men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom” to serve the physical needs of the church so our elders can devote themselves to “to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” Despite the priority we place on this office, I have found relatively little has been written specifically on the office of deacon....