“Cows need to be killed, butchered, cut up, cooked, cut up into smaller pieces, then dipped in steak sauce, chewed and swallowed before they deliver nutrition. We must avoid serving up theological terms ‘on the hoof'” (Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 70).
Nothing Wrong With Clarity
“God has commanded you to preach the word; but the command, ‘Be thou difficult to understand,’ does not exist” (Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 65).
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“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #125 “For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered” (1 Cor. 11:6). Without coming to any final …
An Imagination Miller
“Thomas Watson’s excellence as a preacher hinged on his ability to take abstract truth and run it through the imagination mill, so that it could be seen, experienced, and understood” (Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 50).
With Word Pictures As Bullets
“We want the people in the pews to understand and remember as much of our sermons as possible. We should not be content with firing over people’s heads, but with aiming at their hearts” (Hughes, Expository Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 44).
No Showboating With the Subjunctive
“There must of course be no parade of acquaintance with the original languages, and there should be no morbid fear of being charged with such parade” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, pp. 146-147).
Excuses and Evasions
Up to this point someone might be excused for thinking my purpose in tackling this issue of elder qualifications in a man’s family has been to explain to us all what the standards do not mean, and all the circumstances where they don’t apply. This has been a regrettable necessity because our modern approach to …
Covenant Kindness
Introduction In the previous chapter, there was no dialogue. We had a summary of David’s exploits, and a testimony to how wonderfully God had established him on his throne. In this chapter, we return to ground level, beginning with “And David said . . .” The Text: “And David said, Is there yet any that …
The Fountain of Wars
The fact that our hymns and songs are filled with references to the blood of Jesus Christ is far more than simply a poetic exercise. The fact that Scripture constantly refers to the blood of Christ as the foundation of our forgiveness is not just nebulous metaphor. Scripture plainly teaches that without the shedding of …
You Are Free to Go
In the older covenant, when a man had the misfortune of killing another man by accident, the law made a provision for him to help him evade the avenger of blood. He could flee to one of the designated cities of refuge. In order to remain safe, he had to remain in that city until …