You are here, an invited guest, because you are a friend of God. This great banquet is a banquet with assigned seating. There are place cards at every seat. You are invited. You are welcome. Now the New Testament is filled with warnings about those who forge their own place cards, and counterfeit their invitations. …
Because Copying Is Not Personal
“Preaching is a very personal and individual exercise. We can learn from each other, but must not copy each other” (Motyer, Preaching?, p. 30).
If You Are Going to Err . . .
“A sermon had better have too much salt in it than too little” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 227).
Me and Van Til
So let us begin with the ungrammatical title. Why would I put it like that? It is not really proper, unless worked into a sentence like “‘Me and Van Til’ is not really a proper title for a blog post.” So maybe I am being grammatical accidentially, like the boy who was dozing in the …
Which Is No Fun
“We have all listened to preachers who, we felt, were more interested in blacking eyes than in comforting hearts and tenderly directing lives” (Motyer, Preaching?, p. 25).
Another Sourcebook
“The Pilgrim’s Progress with its strong sense and homely simplicity, its poetic charm and devotional sweetness, is so rich in the choicest illustration that every preacher ought to make himself thoroughly familiar with it, and to refresh his knowledge again and again through life” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, pp. 225-226).
Natural Law and Self-Deception
So it looks to me as though we are going to have a full bore discussion of natural law. This is fine, and about time. I do think that there are some genuine differences here, obviously, but perhaps not as many as advertised. Some of this seems to me to be a debate between advocates …
Go Thou and Do Likewise
“Of the thirty-seven or so references [in Acts], six associate growth with the quality of church life and of Christian character, seven link growth with the evidence of ‘signs and wonders’, and twenty-four link growth with the preaching of the Word of God — indeed in 12:24 the growth of the Church is actually called …
Five Thousand Dollars in Your Pocket
As our discussion of natural law proceeds apace, one of things we have to do is distinguish between the unacceptable forms of natural law and the acceptable forms of it. I mean, to accept the unacceptable forms of natural law would be . . . unnatural. Creepy almost. So what’s the difference? At the end …
Working on a Building I
Introduction As you know, our desire is to build a sanctuary that is more conducive to worship than the temporary quarters that God has graciously given us up to this point. Because we want every aspect of our lives to be governed by Scripture, this means that we must turn to Scripture for guidance and …