Introduction On Palm Sunday, we remember the Lord’s entry into Jerusalem shortly before He was betrayed, condemned, and executed. As we reflect on this moment in His mission, we should take care to remember what that mission was. His mission was not just to save people, it was also to save a people. The Text: …
Well, Yeah, There’s That
“One great reason why many ministers find expository preaching difficult is, that they have not been sufficiently accustomed to study the Bible” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 308).
And It Should Be . . .
“But unity in an expository discourse is by many preachers never aimed at” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 304).
Two Kinds of Unity and One Kind of Growth
Introduction We should always want to turn to Scripture for instruction on what to do where we are. We ought to minimize the study of Scripture that focuses on what might happen to us some other time. Application should always be now, obedience should never be a matter of postponement. The Text: “I therefore, the …
With Some Passages as Cities of Refuge
[Expository preaching misunderstood] ” . . . as some quaint old preacher expressed it, if he is ‘persecuted in one verse, he can flee to another'” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 301).
Noahic Clickbait
So no, I haven’t seen the movie, and no, this is not a review of it. Aside from that resulting in a couple of hours that I couldn’t get back, there would be the problems caused by the possibility of me writing a review of an Aronofsky film that might run counter to the analysis …
Pride in the Body
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #147 “And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the …
Bedrock Discipleship: Assurance
Introduction We wanted to begin this series of messages on bedrock discipleship by grounding everything we believe on the teaching of Scripture. We want everything we hold on this to be established by the Bible, and to ensure that this is so, we need to be biblically literate people. When we come to the Scriptures …
Bedrock Discipleship: Testimony
Introduction We are evangelical Christians, and so we are very familiar with the word testimony. We have heard a good many of them. But we are also reformational Christians, and this means that a number of us grew either weary or suspicious of the practice because of how it has been mishandled so regularly in …
That’s a Link Right There
“God’s creation is a theater and the human mind is a picture gallery, and we link the two by using words” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 41).