“Yet in preaching we need not act as if everything had to be proved. Some things cannot be proved; some do not need to be, and others have been sufficiently proved before, and should now be taken for granted” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 160).
You Are the Man
Introduction David sinned grievously, but his repentance went as deep as his sin had gone. We see complete forgiveness in this portion of the story, offered to David, and received by him. We also see that the reality of ongoing consequences is not the same thing as lack of forgiveness. We must learn to stop …
The Grace of Seeking Grace
This meal is one of God’s appointed means of grace. We come to Him wanting that grace to be multiplied to us. But as it is multiplied, one of the things we must remember is that what is multiplied must come in a certain order. As a multiplication problem, if we just throw things down …
And Should Therefore Be Ransacked
“The wisdom literature contains the largest yields of metaphor and simile found anywhere in the Bible” (Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 115).
In the Real Thing
“Men delight in argument — not in its forms, but in its reality. You will see a light in the faces of unlettered rustics, when an argument drawn from matters within their range of thought or suited to their taste, is presented in terms so plain, so vigorous, so interesting, that they take hold of …
Joel King, R.I.P.
In a time of sudden grief like this, our reactions, not surprisingly, include an oscillating range of emotions—whether sorrow, or pity, or anger at God, or unanswerable aching questions for God, and so on, down the line. Some of the questions make sense, the rest don’t, and none of them need to make sense. They …
With Cudgels
“Exhortation, without implementation, can soon become a verbal beating” (Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 112)
Symbols Matter
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #127 “For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for man” (1 Cor. 11:8-9). We will return in the next verses to …
Uriah Drunk and David Sober
Introduction God has established David as a great king in a newly created Israel. This is the account of a new fall, marring that new creation. In this chapter, David commits adultery, followed up with murder. His subsequent attempts at a bungled cover-up resulted in one of the best known stories of human history. So …
Always Put Yourself First
We are all coming to this Table for grace. We come together, but we also come individually. The meaning of communing together is seen when all of us do something individually. We give you bread, and you eat it. We give you a cup and you drink it. At the same time, all over the …