“When my preaching is true to the biblical text it is automatically true to life” (Edwards, Deep Preaching, p. 18).
21 Words for Fathers
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Mechanics of Fatherhood
INTRODUCTION:In this series, we have been emphasizing the gospel of free forgiveness, and we have also noted that God is the kind of Father we want to become. This means that perfect love casts out fear—we are liberated by the blood of Christ to a life of imitation. Always remember that being precedes doing, and …
Which Has Both Pros and Cons . . .
“Your parishioners listen to other preachers on the radio, watch them on TV and on the Web, and download pdcasts to their iPods. Like it or not, you are not the best preacher that your people have listened to this week. Your congregation has compared and contrasted you with the best-known preachers of the day …
Grace At Our Level
“Any fool can preach like a genius, but it takes a genius to preach simply” (David Murray, How Sermons Work, p. 146)
Honoring Fathers
INTRODUCTION:Human flourishing depends in large measure on the faithfulness and happiness of families, and this depends, in its turn, on the honor rendered to the parents by the children. This is, the apostle Paul tells us, the first commandment with a promise. The promise originally applied to the land of Canaan, as it was spoken …
Nadab and Abihu
Nadab and Abihu were the sons of Aaron who were famously incinerated because they tried to approach the Lord with strange incense (Lev. 10:1-2). It seems to me that they were trying to accomplish something, or see something. I don’t think they were judged just because they got the formula wrong when they were mixing …
Preaching Preferred to Reading
“The debate between Anglicans and Puritans on the relative merits of homilies and sermons, demonstrates the high value, indeed the indispensable value, which the Puritans attached to preaching” (Davies, The Worship of the English Puritans, p. 188).
Like Magic
“Authoritative declaration of the truth changes lectures into sermons” (Murrary, How Sermons Work, p. 120).
No Small Matter
“It is no small matter to stand up in the face of a congregation, and deliver a message of salvation or damnation, as from the living God, in the name of our Redeemer. It is no easy matter to speak so plain, that the ignorant may understand us; and so seriously that the deadest hearts …