“There are in fact preachers who fall into these two camps. Paul Scherer once described them: The one knows what to say but doesn’t know how to say it, and the other knows how to say it but has nothing to say” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 17).
Edits on Birth Control
Quite a few of you read Eleven Theses on Birth Control. This is to let you know I made some significant edits to points 4 and 5. Here.
With the Lab Techs Going Bwa Ha Ha
“We live in a time of great sexual confusion. In our public life, we now have heteroseexuals, homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, and those numbered among the transgendered. No doubt work in a laboratory somewhere is trying to come up with a few new options for us” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 235).
Fluid or Static?
“I shall prefer to speak of the continuity or the movement of a sermon, rather than of its outline” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 14).
Eleven Theses on Birth Control
Update: There are some significant edits to #4-5. Just so you know. Yesterday a friend called to chide me (in a friendly way) for the way in which I have not come down definitively on the question of birth control. My reason for this has been that when it comes to families and the size …
In the Thicket of Bad Poetry, We Need a Machete
“We have to recover the older standards for writing poetry, and if we have the slightest inclination, we should encourage it as much as we can . . . The first stuff we write will probably not be very good, but we should laugh at it and keep going. We are laboring for the kingdom” …
Knots Untied
“Likewise, a sermon is a plot (premeditated by the preacher) which has as its key ingredient a sensed discrepancy, a homiletical bind. Something is ‘up in the air’ — an issue not resolved . . . Preaching is story telling. A sermon is a narrative art form” (Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, p. 12).
Gay Marriage as Failure to Launch
If the Bible teaches, as it does, that the woman is the glory of the man, what follows from this? Among others things, we find an answer to one of the central challenges of our culture wars — by which I mean the cultural infantilism of homosexual marriage. “the woman is the glory of the …
No Indivisible Clump
When we consider the technological developments that surround us on every hand — such as the fact that I am typing this on my phone in the car while my wife is running a quick errand at the mall — our reaction tends to treat the entire human race as though it were an indivisible …
Rhymes With Moby
We have a new guest listed at the Logos Benefit Concert page. Here tis.