Sermon Video Introduction: In the first half of this chapter, Paul has recounted for the Thessalonians the kind of character that he and his co-workers displayed when they labored there in Thessalonica. ...
How to Hear a Sermon
The Heart of It
“The Westminster Directory (1645) states that “the true idea of [expository] preaching is that the preacher should become a mouthpiece for his text, opening it up and applying it as a word from God to his hearers, . . . in order that the text may speak . . . and be heard, making each point from his text in such a manner that [his audience] may discern [the voice of God]”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 69
Unpacking the Suitcase
“We must distinguish between imposition and exposition: eisegesis and exegesis. With the text before us, we must ask: What does the Scripture say? What does the Scripture mean? And only then, What does the Scripture say to me and my congregation?”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, pp. 64-65
True Ministry
Introduction: When we get to the second chapter of this epistle, the apostle Paul reminds them of how it was that the gospel was first brought to them. We know that Paul was only there for three ...
Foundations
“A good deal of counseling should be done from the pulpit.”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 59
And It Tuckers You Clean Out
“The fact is, there is hardly any other occupation on earth more demanding on the total personality than anointed preaching.”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 56
Intellectual Laziness
“A great danger in the ministry is to become stale, stunted, or stilted in our mental life.”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 54
Much Assurance in Trouble
Sermon Video Introduction: Philosophers call one branch of their discipline epistemology. This is the branch of philosophy that seeks to answer the question of how we know what we know. And then, ...
Tested Metal, Tested Mettle
“‘Be diligent to present yourself approved to God’ (v. 15, emphasis ours) As a young preacher, Timothy was exhorted to exert every effort to present himself to God as one approved. That term comes from the world of industry and coinage; it has to do with the testing of metals”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, (p. 53).
Unity in Two Forms
Sermon Video Introduction: As the church of God grows and increases in the world, there will always be problems that are associated with that increase. You cannot have growth in this fallen world ...