“The preacher must recognize that spiritual warfare is taking place as people are thinking through the implications of the truth”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 195
The Public Cross
Sermon Video Introduction: Jesus was crucified in a public way, and so His death necessarily has public ramifications. There is no way to be fully faithful to the message of His death and resurrection ...
Psalm 125/Like the Mountains of Zion
The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Sermon Video Introduction: This psalm is the next in the psalms of ascent (120-134)—a psalm that would be sung as pilgrims made their way up to Jerusalem. ...
Keeping It Honest
“It is important though that the prayer be a genuine prayer rather than an introduction to the sermon”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 190
Makiah and Rachel
One of the problems that we confront in this modern world is the problem of fragmentation. And one of the central drivers of that broader societal fragmentation has been the fragmentation of the family. ...
Christ and the Gods of Chaos
Introduction: We do not pay enough attention to foundational myths. This is the case both with the fanciful myths of the unbelievers and the genuine myths that are recorded for us in Scripture. While ...
The Grace of Failure
Introduction: Many Christians are dogged by two words, and those words are success and failure. We are lured on by the first, and chased down alleys by the second. We are harried by their plain definitions, ...
Audio Reading of Post
Tell It Not in Gath
Introduction: There is little doubt in my mind that America is currently being chastised by the Lord, and He must have sent a great angel of frenzy upon us to do it. One of the evidences of such chastisement ...
Audio Reading of Post
Psalm 124/Like a Bird in the Bracken
Sermon Video The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: When you consider the peril our nation is currently in, and you reflect on the fact that this psalm came up as the text for this ...
Credit It, Of Course, But Especially Live It
“This activity of relating the message to the life of the preacher is especially significant if the preacher is preaching a lot of material he has gleaned from others . . . The bigger issue is that the ‘borrowed’ material needs to become a message that can be preached authentically through the preacher . . . You can use it, giving due credit; but make sure you have ‘heard’ it and responded to it, that the message is yours by virtue of personal submission and commitment.”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 178