The world is a beautiful place, but with many ugly scars. The world is a beautiful place, but has suffered many wounds. We have gathered together here today in order to grieve, and that grief ...
Jack Bradley, RIP
And a Wet Sponge Won’t
“Nothing but fire kindles fire”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 47
The Desire is Not the Call
“There is far too little discrimination in the selection of men who are to preach, and many men find their way into the preacher’s office who discover only too late that it is not their place”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, pp. 45-46
In Other Words, What is the Point?
“The first thing for you to do is to see clearly what you are going to preach for, what you mean to try to save men from”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 42
The Holy Spirit and a Sound Mind/Pentecost 2021
Sermon Video Introduction: One of the common mistakes that Christians make as they think about the Holy Spirit—who was poured out upon the Church at Pentecost—is the mistake of depersonalizing ...
Layers of Partaking
When we partake of the bread and wine together as we are about to do, we are doing much more than partaking of just the bread and wine—even though physical eating and drinking is mysterious enough. In addition to the bread and wine, there are also other glorious things displayed. There is a true and …
Not the Rock, But the Sea
This last week our church community was shocked by a tragic death, and it is at times like these that we must always remember to turn to God for solace and comfort. But we do not turn to Him as though He were a bystander together with us, grieved and shocked the same way we …
Mixed With Faith
At the very beginning of the creation, the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the deep, over the face of the waters. Here, in the new day of the new creation, He is doing the same thing, yet again, hovering over the water. We are not superstitious and we do not trust in …
Don’t Forget the Point
“. . . preaching about Christ as distinct from preaching Christ. There are many preachers who seem to do nothing else, always discussing Christianity as a problem instead of announcing Christianity as a message, and proclaiming Christ as a Savior”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 35
Overstated, But Only Slightly
“Where application begins, there the sermon begins”
Charles Spurgeon, as quoted in Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 251