This week Pastor Wilson discusses Democratic candidate, Pete Buttigieg as the Pop Quiz for left leaning evangelical voters, unpacks the word astocheo, and recommends John Frame’s Systematic Theology.
130: Pete Buttigieg as Pop Quiz
Start the Journey at the Right End
“We need to start where the people are, rather than where we hope to take them.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 70
One Like Unto the Other
“Martin had been far more discreet about his amours than Chad had been, and speaking quantitatively, if illegitimate dalliances were corn, his Nebraskan combine had not cut so wide a swath, and this meant that many on the leadership team did not even know that they were getting a minister like unto Chad.”
The Content Cluster Muster (02.13.20)
Rich Palouse Topsoil: https://www.facebook.com/ChristKirk/videos/vl.1671404619853766/492687741613397/?type=1 Let Me Be the One to Tell You: Thus far in my experience with Plodcastery, the episode most listened to by you all was this one below. And so I thought to chase it a little farther down the road. BZ on a Hard Pill to Swallow: Pill Poppin’ Christians https://t.co/YQUxi1AieJ …
The Size of the Front Porch
“A good introduction serves at least three purposes.First, it awakes interest, stimulates curiosity and makes us long to know God’s perspective on this matter. Secondly, it enables the listeners to sense that they are listening to someone who is qualified to speak for God from this text . . . Thirdly, it introduces the dominant idea and leads the hearers into it”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, pp. 69-70
Quite a Bit of Butterscotch
“This was not really supposed to mean anything in particular, but the elders were not about to press him on it. All they wanted was for smooth words to flow over them (and everybody else in the audience) like molten butterscotch, and it was looking as though they were going to get everything they were paying for, which was quite a bit of butterscotch.”
Hardly the Charge of the Light Brigade
Introduction: So just over a week ago, our college ministry hosted an event on the University of Idaho campus entitled The Lost Virtue of Sexism. About 250 people came, along with a medium-sized cadre of disruption agents and hecklers. The Internet audience has been much larger, coming in around 15K so far. What’s Not to …
Audio Reading of Post
A Brief But Nevertheless Adequate Explanation
There was supposed to be a letters post this morning, and there almost was one too. My understanding of what happened was this. Some time yesterday a semi ran through a utility pole up in Spokane and took out the power, along with a fiber cable. They couldn’t repair the fiber cable until they had …
Circling the Airport
“Some of us seem incapable of concluding anything, let alone our sermons! We circle around, like a plane without instruments on a foggy day, unable to land.”
Stott, The Challenge of Preaching, p. 66
The Wrong Kind of Together
“He was professional, cut, chiseled. His slacks had a crease in them that could cut weeds if he walked through a field of tall grass, not that he did this very often. His one idiosyncratic feature was that he always looked like he was chewing beef jerky whenever he talked, but most people who even noticed it thought it made him look masculine in that jaw-jutty way that you see in Eddie Bauer catalogs.”