“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 ...
Horse and Rider
In the New Testament we are taught that baptism is a sacrament of death and resurrection. All who are baptized are baptized into the Lord’s death (Rom. 6:3), and all who die with Him are also raised with Him. We are raised to life for our justification (Rom. 4:25). Thus coming to the waters of …
What Worship Accomplishes
Sermon Video Introduction: We ascend into the heavenlies in our worship and meet with our God there (Heb. 12:22). But this heavenly worship is not something that has somehow run fearfully away ...
Mulish Preachers
“Unnumbered hours have been spent trying to straighten out men who are too proud to listen to words of caution or counsel. Such preachers attract gullible followers because of their natural charisma and seductive oratory; but they do more harm than can be estimated this side of eternity.”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 40
An Editor Should Have Caught That
[Concerning 1 Tim. 6:3-5] “In Paul’s day, there were liberal teachers and preachers, just as we have them in our time, and Paul was most concerned that young Timothy not be caught up in the ‘battle of words’ which characterized their brand of indoctrination. William Barclay informs us . . .”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 39
Man of God
“In Old Testament times, this appellation was assigned to a person who had been entrusted with a divine office. Moses was called ‘the man of God’ (Dt. 33:1); David was called ‘the man of God’ (2 Chron. 8:14); Elijah was called ‘man of God’ (2 Kings 1:9); the prophets were called ‘men of God’ (1 Sam. 2:27) . . . in the above text [1 Tim. 6:11], however, the apostle has in mind young Timothy, who had been called to be the preacher and pastor of the church(es) in the city of Ephesus and its environs.”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, pp. 38-39
Particularly in Preaching
“The sin of despising [the person of the Holy Spirit] and rejecting his work now is the same nature with idolatry of old and with the Jews’ rejection of the person of the Son”
John Owen, in Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 29.