“What fits exactly, we repeat, can be easily remembered” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 432).
The Order Is Important
“You are free to break the rules once the rules have broken you” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 232)
Tongues as Pending Judgment
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #169 “Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and …
Surveying the Text: Mark
Introduction: This is the shortest of the four gospels, but Mark uses a number of devices to make it fly by even faster. This is a gospel of now. This is a gospel that is quite effective in presenting us with a sense of vivid immediacy. Mark uses the historical present tense consistently, he uses …
Empowered, Enlightened, Enlivened
This meal is not a propitiatory sacrifice. We are not offering Christ to God—rather, God is offering Christ to us. He is able to do this because Christ’s blood was spilled in the crucifixion, and applied to the heavenly altar in the Ascension. The offering of Christ to God was a singular event, and in …
Steeples of Pride
All of this is submitted to God, but, Lord willing, our church sanctuary is going to have a steeple. And a steeple illustrates the perennial problem that believers have in this fallen world. A steeple can be illustrative of the humility of man before God, but it can also be a glaring example of the …
Gospel Guardians
I want to follow up on our earlier discussion having to do with how much of the gospel a man can misunderstand or be ignorant of and still be saved by it. Can a faithful Roman Catholic, accepting what Rome erroneously teaches about the gospel and salvation, still be saved? This came up because of …
Preaching Wheels Up
“This exaltation of soul, rising at times to rapture, can never be fitly described; but the speaker who does not in some measure know what it means, was not born to be a speaker” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 428).
Denial Prep
“Fanatical or slothful men who say that they never make any preparation, deceive themselves” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 426).
Straight to the Meaning
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #168 “I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words …